18.07.2013 Views

BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Children Making Maps<br />

RE-USE OF THE BOOTT MILL, LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS,<br />

AS A <strong>COMMUNITY</strong> CULTURAL CENTER WITH HOUSING<br />

76. Involving children in mapping provides somewhat different perceptions<br />

compared with the perceptions of adults. In Cincinnati, Ohio, children<br />

were unable to draw maps of the city streets in their community, but were<br />

able to draw intricate networks of the city's alleyways where they revealed<br />

a totally different world of resources, events, and "territorial<br />

rights" than the world known to adults.<br />

77. In a very large school district in rural Pennsylvania the children<br />

of an urban school and the children of a rural school several miles away,<br />

independently mapped their communities. The parents got so interested<br />

that they organized visits to each other's communities. Optimizing on<br />

this experience, a new school for each of the communities is now being<br />

built as an interrelated pair, so that the parents and children of the<br />

two communities can continue their interrelationship through preparing<br />

183

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!