ABSTRACT
The original formulation of the question was social-pedagogical in nature, and the results offered to the educator led back to the pedagogical realm and are understood as purely psychological. The research is based on the life space maps created by children in the upper grades of the Boys- and the Girls-Primary-School Imstedt 18/20 in the Barmbeck district. There were twenty-eight maps made by fourteen-year-old boys and twenty-one maps made by four-teen-year-old girls available for analysis. A total of 109 children of both sexes between the age of nine and fourteen were provided with ordinary maps of Hamburg. Luckily for the youth, that there are such spaces in well-kept urban areas, which medieval urban administration would have condemned as “depraved locations.” While the real objects in the individual urban subspaces are mostly lived in relation to a particular world, the child is quite maladapted to this “adult world.” According to its structure, it lives “around” the concrete objects.
