Children’s understanding of environmental representations: Aerial photographs and model towns

Children and their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 42-56

  Plester, Beverly ^a   Blades, Mark ^b   Spencer, Christopher ^b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41649083396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511521232.004     Document Type: Chapter

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