@article{article_309806, title={TÜRKİYE’DE OYUN SOKAKLARI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME: ANKARA VE İSTANBUL ÖRNEKLERİ}, journal={IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education}, volume={3}, pages={87–99}, year={2017}, DOI={10.18768/ijaedu.309806}, url={https://izlik.org/JA57CG23LJ}, author={Artan, İsmihan and Alisinanoğlu, Fatma and Bozkurt Yükçü, Şuheda and Işık Uslu, A. Elif and İbiş, Ezgi and Akay, Dicle}, keywords={Keywords: Play,Play Street,Playgrounds,Anahtar Kelimeler: Oyun,Oyun Sokağı,Oyun Alanları}, abstract={ Abstract <o:p> </o:p> An Examination of Play Streets in Turkey: Sample of Ankara and Istanbul <o:p> </o:p> Play that related to all developmental areas and stages of human life takes and important place in children’s life and is an occupation that children play every time and everywhere. Street is a place that children can reach easily. However it is neglected that streets should be arranged properly to children’s use. Streets are not taken place in children’s life. For some reasons such as traffic and safety, parents are concerned about their children playing on the street. Thus concept of “play street” has gained importance in order that children can play in naturel environment and the street that is near their home. When the play streets that offer to children natural playing environment are arranged properly, both all developmental areas of children are supported and the worries of parents about their children playing on the street are decreased. Accordingly, the aim of the research is to examine the play street in Ankara and İstanbul in terms of environment, materials, content, accessibility and cleanliness. The research design is “holistic multiple-case design” which is one of the case study designs; as for the sample of research is 10 play streets which was selected by purposive sampling method in Ankara and İstanbul. As a data collection tool was used to “Play Street Checklist” that is created by researchers. The data are analyzed with content analysis according to predetermined themes in the checklist. Results indicated that the play streets in İstanbul and Ankara are different from each other with regard to approach. The play streets in Ankara are mostly towards preschool children and predominantly are had materials while others in İstanbul are rich in terms of playground (spielplatzs, bowling and chess area etc.) towards all aged. Besides, the materials in the play streets in Ankara are not checked and repaired regularly. The play materials related the playgrounds (chess man etc.) do not exist always in the play streets in İstanbul. Unlike İstanbul, there is no a special activity to increase the use of the play streets in Ankara and these play streets are left to children’s own choice only. When the play streets are examined in terms of the most important factor of security theme, results indicated that 7 of the 8 play streets in Ankara are open to traffic but there are warning signs for security. However the play streets in İstanbul are closed to traffic and equippped with security cameras. As a result, the fact that attempts to concept of play street in Ankara and İstanbul which are Turkey’s biggest cities has been regarded as an important improvement for Turkey. However increasing the qualities and the number of the play streets throughout Turkey will provide that children will gain maximum benefit from these play streets. <o:p> </o:p> Keywords : Play, Play Street, Playgrounds <o:p> </o:p> Özet <o:p> </o:p> Tüm gelişim alanlarıyla ve yaşamın tüm dönemleriyle ilgili oldukça önemli bir kavram olan oyun, çocuğun hayatında çok önemli bir yer tutar ve çocuğun her zaman ve her türlü mekanda yapabileceği bir uğraştır. Çocukların oyun oynamak için en rahat ulaşabileceği yer ise sok}, number={7}