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Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018

This report provides information about the places and numbers of displaced people around the world. The Global Trends Report is published every year to analyse the changes in UNHCR’s populations of concern and deepen public understanding of ongoing crises. UNHCR counts and tracks the numbers of refugees, internally displaced people, people who have returned to…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

Qualitative Research on Children’s Play: A Review of Recent Literature

This book chapter is a review of the recent, English-language qualitative research on children’s play. It focuses on the place play has in children’s experience and giving sense to the world. Thus, it will leave aside the large and important body of research on the effect or outcomes (benefits and possible harmful consequences) of play…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Book

Play as Children See It

The first section considers studies that ask children the seemingly simple question: What happens when you go to school? Of interest is whether play enters into children’s school scripts and, if it does, where it goes. Do children’s responses reveal their emotional and motivational judgments of schools and, if so, how are these judgments expressed?…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Book

Landscape as Playscape: The Effects of Natural Environments on Children’s Play and Motor Development

This study investigated the impacts of playing in a natural environment on motor development in children. A quasi-experimental study was conducted on five-, six-, and seven-year old children with an experimental group playing in a natural environment and a control group playing in a more traditional playground. When provided with a natural landscape in which…
  • Publication year: 2004
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Understanding Research with Children and Young People

The book aims to enable researchers to be reflective and mindful of their own assumptions, and think critically about the implications of decisions made at various stages of the research process. This is achieved by encouraging readers to contemplate why research with children is valuable, what can be gained from it and what considerations need…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Book

War and Children

This book looks at the record of children in modern war told honestly and completely, by two of the world’s outstanding child psychologists, Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham. The work focuses on how war affects psychological development in children; the need for personal attachment, for emotional stability, and for permanency of educational influence.
  • Publication year: 1943
  • Content Type: Book

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DeCID: Co-designing social infrastructure with children affected by displacement is a project led by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL) and CatalyticAction, and funded by UKRI through the Global Challenges Research Fund.

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