Young Children Perspectives about the Environment

With the emergence of camera, photography is now a source of tangible documentations and representations on children's perceptions about their environment. This study is to identify what types of pictures will children take and their reasons on their selections. This study was conducted on four preschoolers where they were given a camera and were asked to take pictures of their environment and were asked about the pictures. Results show that children do have their own reasons for their own photography and certain parts of the environment were meaningful to them and it affect them emotionally. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia