Evaluating Pattern of Educational Trips in Elementary and Preschool Grades and its Impact on Behavioral and Social Traits of Children based on the Child-Friendly City Approach and Walkability; Case Study: ShahrAra Neighborhood in Iran

Bashiri, Maryam; Salaripour, Ali Akbar; Ramezani, Hamid

doi:10.22034/aaud.2023.338301.2669

Evaluating Pattern of Educational Trips in Elementary and Preschool Grades and its Impact on Behavioral and Social Traits of Children based on the Child-Friendly City Approach and Walkability; Case Study: ShahrAra Neighborhood in Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Maryam Bashiri ¹

Ali Akbar Salaripour ²

Hamid Ramezani ³

¹ M.Sc in Urban Development, Faculty of Architecture and Art, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

² Associate Professor of Urban Development Department, Faculty of Architecture and Art, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran (Corresponding Author).

³ Instructor of Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/aaud.2023.338301.2669

Abstract

Three social units of family, school, and urban spaces in urban communities play a vital role in nurturing and shaping the child's character. School routes are one of the spaces children are connected to more than other environments, providing a proper opportunity for students to be present on public platforms and experience the city. Now, expanded urbanization and the importance of movement pace in cities have increased the use of motor vehicles. This issue has led to concerns and challenges, including students' health. This problem has resulted in a study to identify factors affecting various methods of active transportation in educational trips of students. This study aims to investigate the educational trip patterns and factors affecting it based on indicators such as child-friendly city and walkability and examine the impact of various movement patterns on students' behavioral and social traits in the ShahrAra Neighborhood. The method used in this study is descriptive-quantitative regarding the nature of research and is applied in terms of objective. After 351 questionnaires containing 57 questionnaires were distributed among preschool and elementary students (with the age range of 5-12) in ShahrAra Neighborhood, data analysis was done through SPSS Software. In this analysis, the available data from questionnaires were interpreted by assessing the correlation between variables. The results of this study showed that the willingness to walk among students of the neighborhood is averagely lower than the medium level, and the common movement pattern is inactive so that only 29.9% of students in the studied sample use active patterns daily, and more than 67% use active movement patterns less than twice a weak. Also, movement patterns are selected by students under the influence of urban structure and socioeconomic characteristics of children. On the other hand, the type of movement pattern plays a significant role in shaping the character of children and affects their behavioral and social characteristics.

Keywords

Educational Trips

Child-Friendly City

Movement Pattern

Walkability

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