ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Greener Schoolyards, Greener Futures? Greener Schoolyards Buffer Decreased Contact With Nature and Are Linked to Connectedness to Nature.
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- How can nature connectedness and behaviours for learning be deliberately developed in children, adolescents and young adults? A systematic literature review.Child and adolescent mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Playgrounds as microbial interfaces: strategies to enhance soil microbiomes and support healthy childhoods.mSystems · 2026Review
- Analysis of students' positive emotions around the green space in the university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Children are spending less time in nature. They are not taking advantage of the benefits that are related to experiencing nature, such as the improvement of attentional capacity and stress reduction. Furthermore, they are also losing the opportunity to assess nature in a more positive way and to become more connected to nature, factors that appear to be fundamental to securing a greener future. To overcome this problem, researchers have been focusing on increasing children's contact with nature in schools and in promoting garden-based learning programs. Children spend most of their time in school, where they face many cognitive and relational demands. As such, schools might be the ideal context to increase children's contact with nature with more empirical research being needed to understand the effects that greener schools might have. The goal of this study is to explore the effects of schoolyards in children's perceived restorativeness experiences, attitudes towards nature, connection to nature, and social competences. For that, we studied children (
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