caa a22 4500 469056169 CHVBK 20180323132844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00757194 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00757194 Trawick-Smith Jeffrey Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, 06226-2295, Willimantic, CT aut A descriptive study of spatial arrangement in a family day care home [Elektronische Daten] [Jeffrey Trawick-Smith] A descriptive study was conducted to examine the effects of arrangement of play space within a family day care home. Subjects were 6 four year old children who were videotaped playing under three different environmental conditions. In Condition 1-a, they were taped at the beginning and end of a month in a randomlyarranged play setting which was not partitioned into distinct play centers. In Condition 2, they were taped in a similar manner within a spatially defined area arranged in accordance with previous research. In the final condition, 1-b, the play environment was returned to an undefined state. As before, subjects were observed in this environment at the beginning and end of the month. A novelty effect was discovered—under any condition, subjects were more engaged and displayed more curiosity and enthusiasm at the beginning of the month than at the end. By the end of the month in Conditions 1 and 3, subjects were significantly less engaged and more boredom, daydreaming, confusion, and clashes with peers were observed. In the defined space, in contrast, this decline in engagement was not observed. Recommendations for design of family day care environments are considered. Human Sciences Press, 1992 Child and Youth Care Forum Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 21/4(1992-08-01), 263-276 1053-1890 21:4<263 1992 21 10566 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757194 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757194 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Trawick-Smith Jeffrey Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, 06226-2295, Willimantic, CT aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Child and Youth Care Forum Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 21/4(1992-08-01), 263-276 1053-1890 21:4<263 1992 21 10566 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer