Incorporating children's views and perceptions about urban mobility: Implementation of the “philosophy with children” inquiry approach with young children
There is an increasing concern among scholars and practitioners to incorporate children's views and perceptions about their daily mobility, followed by the search for structured approaches for data collection and analysis. This paper draws on academic research conducted with 5 to 6-year old children and their caregivers (N = 317) in three public preschools in São Paulo (Brazil) with a high prevalence of low-income immigrants, using the “Philosophy with Children” (PwC) inquiry approach. Once the PwC sessions were transcribed and associated to the questionnaires to caregivers (73% response rate), it was possible to adopt a set of qualitative analysis tools to extract children's views and perceptions about urban mobility, namely topic modelling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) and sentiment analysis (AFINN and Bing sentiment lexicons). These allowed the identification of variables affecting the opinions shared by young children about urban mobility, including more negative perceptions among boys, non-native children, and those in high social vulnerability. Beyond revealing a potential of the PwC approach to enquire children about their established travel behavior, the implementation of the proposed inquiry sessions covered an age group that is commonly disregarded in most of transport-related studies involving children and youth while encompassing a context of public schools in a developing country, with a high prevalence of low-income and immigrant families.
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- © 2021 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Humberto, Mateus
- Moura, Filipe
- Giannotti, Mariana
- Publication Date: 2022-1
Language
- English
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- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 168-177
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Serial:
- Travel Behaviour and Society
- Volume: 26
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 2214-367X
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2214367X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attitudes; Immigrants; Low income groups; Mobility; Preschool children
- Geographic Terms: Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01788803
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 18 2021 12:14PM