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Risk and Safety in Outdoor Play [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The importance of stimulating and challenging outdoor play for the health and development of children, as this Chapter describes, is now the topic of copious research.
Sandseter, EBH   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Children’s experiences outdoors: Education and community contexts

open access: yesJournal 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).
Mehmet Mart   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time Regulation as Institutional Condition for Children’s Outdoor Play and Cultural Formation in Kindergarten [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Time regulation is an important aspect of the everyday life in any kindergarten and has an impact on which activities are given priority. In this case study, the outdoor playtime in one kindergarten in China and one in Norway is compared based on the ...
Åsta Birkeland   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Challenges of Supporting Young Children’s Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

open access: yesNorthwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
This study explored preschool teachers’ beliefs about the challenges they have experienced when supporting young children’s outdoor play. Through Charmaz’s (2006) constructivist grounded theory data analysis process, two types of challenges for providing
Ji Hyun Oh
doaj   +1 more source

Activities and outdoor play: Their benefits for physical, cognitive, and social learning and well-being

open access: yesFormazione & Insegnamento, 2022
The outdoor environment, both natural and urban, is increasingly seen as a promising context to improve the population’s development, learning and physical activity levels.
Alessandra Natalini, Fabio Orecchio
doaj   +1 more source

Physical environmental opportunities for active play and physical activity level in preschoolers: a multicriteria analysis

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Active play opportunities seems to influence the level of physical activity during childhood. However, a gap remains about which environmental opportunities including the daycare physical environment could have a positive impact on the level ...
Juliana Nogueira Pontes Nobre   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Playing outdoors: What do children do, where and with whom?

open access: yesJournal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2023
There is an increasing interest in outdoor play, both in research and in policy. However, in (re)designing, planning and managing the public space, there is still limited attention for children’s actual playing behavior. A lot of urban planning decisions
Gerben Helleman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Designing for Children's Outdoor Play [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2016
Children's outdoor play is fluent and fluctuating, shaped by environmental features and conditions. The article reports on a project where interaction designers and landscape architects work together to fuse their knowledge into working solutions for integrating interactive play in outdoor environments.
Jon Back   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We describe a Research-through-Design (RtD) project that explores the Internet of Things (IoT) as a resource for children's free play outdoors. Based on initial insights from a design ethnography, we developed four RtD prototypes for social play in ...
Vines, J   +31 more
core   +1 more source

Relationship between peer group size and active outdoor play in children aged 9–12 years

open access: yesJournal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2023
Outdoor play during childhood is vital for physical, cognitive, and social development. Outdoor play is influenced by friends, though the relationship between outdoor play and the number of close friends is not clear.
Kazuya Tamura   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

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