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Patterns of seated activity in sensory gardens among children educated in special schools
Author(s) -
Hussein Hazreena
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.12021
Subject(s) - affordance , session (web analytics) , psychology , activity theory , developmental psychology , applied psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , social psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , world wide web
This study investigated the seated activity among children educated in special schools and their adult carers in two sensory gardens in the U nited K ingdom. Seated activity was established whether the seating was used as intended or whether users preferred to sit on other attributes during their learning session. The objectives of this study are to explore opportunities for users' activity and their engagement with the attributes, whether activity is possible or if opportunities are not being actualised because of barriers. Observation and behaviour mapping methods were carried out alongside affordance theory. The outcome suggests that the number of users, the number of attributes and the total area of the zone did not relate to the median time spent per user; rather, it was the richness of the attributes that did so.