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October 24, 2025People and NatureOpen Access

Exploring young people's visual perceptions of nature on urban school grounds: Insights from a visitor‐employed photography walk for environmental education

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JTJohanna TrummerLWLucas WeinbergJWJerylee Wilkes‐Allemann

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Overview

Mixed-methods study reveals multifaceted visual perceptions of schoolyard nature among adolescents, highlighting opportunities to design multifunctional grounds that support environmental awareness.

Key Points

  • To investigate how adolescents visually perceive nature within urban school grounds and determine how these visual perspectives reflect their broader understanding and valuation of natural elements.
  • Conducted a mixed-methods study combining visitor-employed photography walks with a quantitative survey among adolescents aged 14–16 years (n = 58) across school grounds in Austria and Germany.
  • Analyzed 570 participant photographs and accompanying written log book entries using qualitative content analysis, followed by correlational analyses with survey responses.
  • Visual perceptions of nature were multifaceted, spanning micro-level focal points such as flower blossoms to broad landscape perspectives encompassing multiple ecological components.
  • Participants who assigned lower personal importance to nature significantly favored photographing broad landscape scenes rather than detailed individual natural features.
  • Adolescents frequently identified anthropogenic influences, contrasting negative environmental pressures such as littering against beneficial recreational amenities like football and volleyball fields.

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Trummer et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1042b04fb650da4fff2e6dhttps://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70188
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