Children's outdoor play at early learning and child care centres: Examining the impact of environmental play features on children's play behaviour. [PDF]
PLoS ONEEarly learning and child care centres are critical settings to support children's regular, repeated and quality time spent in outdoor play. Gibson's theory of affordances highlights the importance of the human-environment relationship, emphasizing how ...
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The association among SES, screen time, and outdoor play in children at different ages: The GECKO Drenthe study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionThis study examined the association among socioeconomic status (SES), screen time, and outdoor play in children at different ages in the GECKO Drenthe birth cohort study.MethodsValid data were obtained from two surveys at ages 3–4 years and ...
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2017 Time spent outdoors is associated with higher levels of physical activity. To date, correlates of independent outdoor play have not been investigated. This study aimed to identify potential demographic, behavioural, environmental and social correlates of
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Outdoor Motor Play: Analysis, Speculations, Research Paths
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2013 In our rapidly changing contemporary society, it has become apparent that children spend significantly less time playing outdoors than their parents did. Therefore, considerable attention must be paid by professionals to engage this challenge, especially
Andrea Ceciliani, Alessandro Bortolotti
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Results from the PROmoting Early Childhood Outside cluster randomized trial evaluating an outdoor play intervention in early childhood education centres [PDF]
Scientific ReportsParticipation in outdoor play is beneficial for the health, well-being, and development of children. Early childhood education centers (ECECs) can provide equitable access to outdoor play.
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The Belief in Outdoor Play and Learning
JETEN, 2017 Norwegian kindergartens traditionally use outdoor environments for play and learning also for the youngest children regardless of the season. This research examines the assumptions and priorities underlying teachers’ work with movement and sensory ...
Karen Marie Eid Kaarby, Cato Tandberg
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Stranger danger or good Samaritan? A cross-sectional study examining correlates of tolerance of risk in outdoor play among Canadian parents [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Negative parental perceptions of risk may restrict children’s opportunities for outdoor play. Excessively minimizing children’s exposure to risks in their environment may have a range of developmental consequences.
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Correction to: 2025 position statement on active outdoor play [PDF]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityEun-Young Lee +16 more
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Ghummeida: Outdoor Play in a Militarized Zone [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2020 This paper connects two seemingly distinct subjects—the right to health and children’s play in contexts of a militarized settler colony. Following Ignacio Martín-Baró’s articulation of a critical psychology “of the people,” we outline the spatial and ...
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Razzan Quran
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Children’s experiences outdoors: Education and community contexts
Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2023 Children’s right to play is enshrined in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1990).
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