Adolescents, place experience and visual intelligence: Implications for educators

Abstract

The influence on thinking from the totality of informal contexts such as home, neighbourhood and community seems largely unexplored in research. Some neighbourhood differences have been observed in attitudes and achievement but these have been largely undefined or linked to one or two variables such as socioeconomic status and levels of general reasoning ability. In the research described two hundred and ten adolescents located in seven places were randomly selected for study. Data collected related to experience of, and attitudes towards, travel, leisure activities, visual skills, learning and study approaches, attention and concentration, and general reasoning ability. Statistically significant differences were recorded between all places in all thinking skills variables (p < .001) and three of the six learning approaches variables (p < .01). Data from the study evinced support for the hypothesis that interactions between people and places result in place‐specific skills and behaviour.

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