‘Sometimes birds sound like fish’: Perspectives on children’s place experiences

Children and their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 108-123

  Derr, Tori ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511521232.008     Document Type: Chapter

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