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Children in nature's trail: itinerary games and re-enchantment

The present study analyses children's tracking activity at Forest. It aims at showing the dynamic structure of the activity, its symbolic universe as well as its thematic nucleus according to the act of playing studies, the millenarian itinerary games and the environment representations. Inspired on the ethnographic research model, the main tools were observation and recording. The emotional answers to different landscapes appeals such as caves, cracks, sightseeing sand waterfalls brought up lots of images that would remind the symbolic universe of the traditional itinerary games.

Playgroup; Environmental Education; Traditional Games


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