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

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

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

BMC 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, Rosane Luzia De Souza Morais, Bernat Viñola Prat, Amanda Cristina Fernandes, Ângela Alves Viegas, Pedro Henrique Scheidt Figueiredo, Henrique Silveira Costa, Ana Cristina Resende Camargos, Marcus Alessandro de Alcantara, Vanessa Amaral Mendonça, Ana Cristina Rodrigues Lacerda   +10 more
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Playing outdoors: What do children do, where and with whom?

Journal 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, Ivan Nio, Sanne I. de Vries   +2 more
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Designing for Children's Outdoor Play [PDF]

Proceedings 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, Caspar Heeffer, Susan Paget, Andreas Rau 0002, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, Annika Waern   +5 more
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Relationship between peer group size and active outdoor play in children aged 9–12 years

Journal 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, Yuya Ueda, Takashi Saito, Ryo Goto, Naoki Yamada, Kiyomasa Nakatsuka, Kazuaki Uchida, Kana Horibe, Kenta Saeki, Haruhi Encho, Masato Tezuka, Mao Mukaijo, Rei Ono   +12 more
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Parents' perceptions of their children's outdoor activities before and during COVID-19 crisis

Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2023
This study is focused on Israeli parents' perceptions regarding the possible benefits and barriers to their children's outdoor activities as well as on their reports on the actual engagement of their children in these kinds of activities, before and ...
Michaella Kadury-Slezak, Clodie Tal, Sapir Faruchi, Iris Levy, Pninat Tal, Sigal Tish   +5 more
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How an early learning and child care program embraced outdoor play: A case study

Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2023
Research indicates outdoor play influences children’s physical, cognitive and social-emotional well-being, but there are barriers to implementation in early learning settings.
Brenna Richard, Joan Turner, Michelle R. Stone, Jessie-Lee D. McIsaac   +3 more
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The type and frequency of interactions that occur between staff and children outside in Early Years Foundation Stage settings during a fixed playtime period when there are tricycles available [PDF]

, 2012
This study reports on an investigation into adult and child interactions observed in the outdoor play environment in four Local Authority early years foundation stage settings in England.
Al Otaiba S., August D., Bee H., Bilton H., Bilton H., Blakemore S. J., Blenkin G. M., Bruce T., Bruner J., Cartwright P., Clements-Croome D. J., Cullen J., Department for Children, Schools and Families (DfCSF), Department for Children, Schools and Families (DfCSF), Department for Education (DfE), Dockrell J. E., Donaldson M., Dudley-Marling C., Dunne E., Edgington M., Evangelou M., Gallahue D. L., Garrick R., Gibson J. J., Gill T., Goswami U., Goswami U., Hart B., Helen Bilton, Hoff E., Justice L. M., Kieffer M. J., Kyttä M., Maynard T., McAuley H., McLean S. V., McNaughton G., Moss P., Moyles J., Niklasson L., Ouvry M., Pascal C., Pelligrini A. D, Pelligrini A. D., Pollard A., Pound L., Rogers S., Siraj-Blatchford I., Smith A. B., Stephenson A., Sylva K., Tizard B., Tovey H., Vygotsky L., Waters J., Webb L., Whitebread D., Wood E., Zimmerman F. J.   +58 more
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Outdoor play and learning [PDF]

International Journal of Play, 2018
Opportunities for children to engage in high quality outdoor experiences are diminishing (Waller et al., 2017).
Shirley Wyver, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter   +1 more
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