Open AccessFriendliness of route along the home-school journey for less privileged children in old city zone of Makassar
Author(s) -
A. M. Asrun,
Ismail Said,
Nurul Izni Rusli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/419/1/012094
Subject(s) - affordance , home school , space (punctuation) , citizen journalism , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , geography , political science , linguistics , philosophy , law , cognitive psychology
The home-school journey is a part of less privileged children’s daily routine in Makassar. Children’s repetitive engagement with elements of the street environment contributes to their growth and development. This study determines the actual friendliness of route for less privileged children along their homeschool journey that lead them to perceive the street as their play space. Participatory observation and behavior mapping were conducted to 10 less privileged children, aged 9 to 11. Their movement, social play, place of visit and preferred route were elicited during their journey from home to school and back. The site was a neighborhood in the old city zone of Makassar. The data was analysis using GIS heat-map. It is found that less privileged children perceive the home-school journey as a route to reach their school as well as a place space especially coming back from school to home. Utilized and shaped affordances of school to home journey were more than those gained from home to school. Boys practiced a longer journey than girls on their way back from school to home. It means that the geography of less privileged children at urban street generates spatial skill through social play.