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Risk and Safety in Outdoor Play [PDF]
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
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Children’s experiences outdoors: Education and community contexts
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
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Time Regulation as Institutional Condition for Children’s Outdoor Play and Cultural Formation in Kindergarten [PDF]
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
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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
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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
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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
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Playing outdoors: What do children do, where and with whom?
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
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Designing for Children's Outdoor Play [PDF]
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
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Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children [PDF]
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
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Relationship between peer group size and active outdoor play in children aged 9–12 years
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
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