The importance of tales on children's spatial perception development

Children are the future of society. It is important that children are grown with responsibility for themselves and their environment as well as conscious individuals. Children need to have a childhood mentality that is effective, participant, creative, challenging what is going on within their society, understanding and protecting their rights, constantly changing for the better while changing their environments for the better too. Children themselves are the best for explaining their point of view. For this reason, when decisions are made for them, their effective participation must be ensured. In this research, with children?s participation, an evaluation is made about children?s perception of place where creating place being the main subject of architectural discipline.In order to present ?The Importance of Tales for Development of Perception of Place in Children?, a literature research is conducted about children, place, perception, and tale concepts. By presenting the scientific base of this research, theories and opinions are included that support development of perception of place in children. The concept of children is studied, and an attempt is made to evaluate the cognitive level driven by various parameters. The position of ?place and perception? concepts in architectural discipline is presented with a child-centric perspective. Gathered from literature research; ideas, theories and opinions about the impact of places in tales are supported with field studies. During the evaluation of the development of place perception and the process of cognitive development, the ways that children associate places in tales with real-life places are evaluated. Recommendations obtained from interpreting the results are included.