International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 14 Number: 4 Page: 305–309
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Place Attachment, Place Identity and the Development of the Child’s Self-identity: Searching the Literature to Develop an Hypothesis
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Christopher Spencer
Professor of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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This is part of a campaign to encourage educational researchers, geographers in particular, to spread their literature searches beyond their immediate subject area. The question of place attachment and identity is reviewed through the psychologistal literature. The hypothesis is offered and supported, that place, in a geographical sense is also considered in several ways by the environmental psychologists. The case is argued that if geography teaching starts from children’s own geographies, then geography teaching is important in the enhancement of personal well-being.
Keywords: literature, place identity, place attachment, self-identity, environmental psychology, children’s geographies
© 2005 C. Spencer
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