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14 Bush Kinder: Thinking Differently About Privileged Spaces Through/With/In Children’s Geographies

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    From various dictionary definitions of ‘morality’.

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    It should be noted that since the emergence of the Westgarth Bush Kinder (in Melbourne, Victoria), the first of its kind in Australia, other bush and beach kinder have started up, mostly in the state of Victoria.

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    See, for example:

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Chancellor, B., Sellers, M. (2017). 14 Bush Kinder: Thinking Differently About Privileged Spaces Through/With/In Children’s Geographies. In: Kelly, P., Pike, J. (eds) Neo-Liberalism and Austerity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58266-9_15

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