茨城県土浦市における児童の空間行動の拡大に伴う知覚環境の発達 行動圏抽出へ向けての一試論

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the developmental process and mechanism of children's perception of the environment in the neighborhood, based on perceived amount and perceived space, in relation to the expanding process of their spatial behavior with advance of grade. For analyzing children's perception of the environment, the author used their free-hand sketch-map. This analyzing method is very useful for grasping the situation of children's behavior in their living space. As a study area, he chose Tsuchiura elementary school district. This school district consists of the central and rural area in Tsuchiura city, which is the central city of south district in Ibaraki Prefecture. So there are geographically many differences between each area of this school district. But it is thought that, in perception of the environment, there will be few difference between each area. Because most children live in the central area rather than in the rural area.The main result are summarized as follows:1) Children expand the range of their spatial behavior remarkably with advance of grade.2) Children's perceived amount increases with advance of grade.3) Children's perception of the environment is formed by the strong influence of the regional feature and their behavior in living space.4) Most of children's perceived space spreads only around their home. So their perceived space does not develop remarkably with advance of grade.5) The community or neighborhood for children is limited around their home.6) From the analysis of questionnaire about children's playing activity, it is made clear that they prefer to play indoors rather than outdoors with the advance of grade, and that, in all grade, their place for playing is limited arond their home. In short, it is thought that these above mentioned points stopped their develpoment of perception of the environment.7) From the result of this study, children's behavioral zone can be extracted. This behavioral zone consist of three concentric zonal structures, which is called, “zone for usual behavior”, “zone for unusual behavior” and “zone for long term travel”.