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"Where do we feel at ease and sure of ourselves? Places where 'I know what to do and I can do it.'...Think of when and where we feel incompetent. When we don't understand what to do or how to do it. 'Go milk that Holstein cow, ok?' or 'Readjust those valves and calibrate the pressure.'"

So wrote Jim Greenman in his popular book, Caring Spaces, Learning Places (now newly revised by Mike Lindstrom). Greenman asserts that for children, spaces support their competence through:

• "appropriate expectations
• appropriate scale
• clear organization
• a variety of things to do and places to do them
• a profound understanding and acceptance of the diversity of skills and limitations that children and adults possess, and a commitment to accommodation."

The newest revision of Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry. Here you will find current thinking about children's environments to challenge, stimulate, and inspire you.

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