TY - JOUR
T1 - Availability of nature and access to nature in school
T2 - evidence from a Danish longitudinal school study
AU - Romani, Annette Quinto
AU - Lund, Rolf Lyneborg
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - There has been an increasing focus on test scores and rankings in schools. However, the focus on children’s standardized test scores has come at the cost of their social relations. As a reaction to this test-centric focus, new approaches claim that nature is important not only for children’s social relations but also for their scholastic achievement. Drawing on a longitudinal dataset following 1,087 Danish schoolchildren in the Municipality of Aalborg, this paper sets out to investigate the impact of the availability of nature and access to nature on social relations and scholastic achievement. We address the endogeneity of child quality by applying a value-added approach and the endogeneity of school quality using propensity score matching. Our analyses suggest that the availability of nature and access to nature in themselves are not enough to promote social relations.
AB - There has been an increasing focus on test scores and rankings in schools. However, the focus on children’s standardized test scores has come at the cost of their social relations. As a reaction to this test-centric focus, new approaches claim that nature is important not only for children’s social relations but also for their scholastic achievement. Drawing on a longitudinal dataset following 1,087 Danish schoolchildren in the Municipality of Aalborg, this paper sets out to investigate the impact of the availability of nature and access to nature on social relations and scholastic achievement. We address the endogeneity of child quality by applying a value-added approach and the endogeneity of school quality using propensity score matching. Our analyses suggest that the availability of nature and access to nature in themselves are not enough to promote social relations.
KW - Nature
KW - propensity score matching
KW - scholastic achievement
KW - social relations
KW - value-added approach
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112671525&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14729679.2021.1961093
DO - 10.1080/14729679.2021.1961093
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1472-9679
VL - 22
SP - 250
EP - 264
JO - Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning
JF - Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning
IS - 3
ER -