School Journey as a Third Place

Zoe Moody is Professor at the University of Teacher Education Valais and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva.Ayuko Berchtold-Sedooka, PhD, is Research Associate at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva, and Expert in educational resource production, at éducation21.Sara Camponovo, PhD, is Research Associate at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva.Philip D. Jaffé is Professor at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva, and a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.Frédéric Darbellay is Associate Professor at the University of Geneva and Head of the Inter- & Transdisciplinarity Unit at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies.

• Introduction; Part I. Theories And Methods to Explore the School Journey, Chapter 1. The Multidimensionality of the Way to and from School: A Third Place for Children?; Chapter 2. Walking through Mundane Landscapes: Children’s Experience of Place during the School Journey; Chapter 3. Dangers in the Third Place: Walking, Public Transport and the Experiences of Young Girls in Cape Town and Abuja; Chapter 4. The (Im)Possibility of Spatial Autonomy for Young City Dwellers; Chapter 5. The Quality of the Way to School Lies in the Design Details; Part II. Children’s Experiences of The School Journey Chapter 6. Children’s Experiences and Affective Connections with Place in Their Independent Mobility; Chapter 7. Parental Concerns and Perceptions Related to Children’s Independent Travel to School: A Case Study in Germany; Chapter 8. How Does Families’ Daily Mobility between Home and School Change with the Trottibus, a Walking School Bus Program in Quebec, Canada?; Chapter 9. The Spatial Distribution of the Walking School Bus: An Interactionist Approach; Chapter 10. Incorporating the Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour in a School Travel Mode Choice Model: A Case Study of Shaoxing; Chapter 11. Thinking about Ableism and Third Place to Understand and Improve the School Journeys of Disabled Children and Their Families; Index

“The book’s multidisciplinary approach in studying children’s school journeys around the world produces rich and exciting new knowledge on children’s autonomous mobility whilst also attesting to the multidimensionality of their lives within this everyday transitional space of theirs” —Leena Alanen, Professor Emerita (Early Childhood Education), Department of Education, Associate Professor/Docent (Sociology), Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.