Outdoor play in early childhood education settings: Is it safe and healthy for children?

Taylor, Satomi Izumi; Morris, Vivian Gunn

doi:10.1007/bf02364750

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“…Therefore, children's risk-taking decisions are also influenced by supervising adults' evaluations of a situation's risk and their decisions to influence children's risk-taking in play. Research indicates that lack of supervision is a significant cause of childhood injuries in play (Morrongiello, 2005;Morrongiello, Carbett, McCourt, & Johnston, 2006;Rosen & Peterson, 1990;Taylor & Morris, 1996). In accordance with this, studies have shown that children attending childcare centres Á institutions where supervision by adults is typically extensive Á experience fewer injuries than children spending their days at home with their parent(s).…”

Section: Supervision and Early Childhood Education And Care Practitiomentioning

confidence: 80%

Restrictive Safety or Unsafe Freedom? Norwegian ECEC Practitioners' Perceptions and Practices Concerning Children's Risky Play

Sandseter

2012

Child Care in Practice

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Many countries face a growing debate on the balance between ensuring children's safety and allowing children to play in physically and emotionally stimulating and challenging environments. This study is theoretically and conceptually situated within this debate, focusing on how early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners perceive the risk in children's play, and how they handle children's physical risk-taking given their dual responsibilities to keep children safe and to provide enough developmental challenges. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven ECEC practitioners with the goal of gaining insight into their opinions and reflections on children's risky play in kindergarten. The results show that Norwegian ECEC practitioners assess children's opportunities to engage in risky play in kindergarten as good: play environments provide opportunities for risky play, and practitioners allow and encourage children's risky play. The practitioners have a positive attitude toward risky play and state that they think it is important for children's development. The interviews show that the strategies for handling risky play are adapted instinctively in the play situation, considering each child individually, and common boundaries or rules are rare. The results of this study are a contribution to the discussion on children's play safety and how to handle risk-taking play in ECEC settings, and would hopefully be inspiring to ECEC practitioners and politicians in countries other than Norway.

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Section: Supervision and Early Childhood Education And Care Practitiomentioning

confidence: 80%

Restrictive Safety or Unsafe Freedom? Norwegian ECEC Practitioners' Perceptions and Practices Concerning Children's Risky Play

Sandseter

2012

Child Care in Practice

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“…Research has indicated that lack of supervision is one of the causes of childhood injuries in play (Morrongiello, 2005;Morrongiello, Carbett, McCourt, & Johnston, 2006;Taylor & Morris, 1996). In accordance with this, studies have shown that children attending childcare centres, e.g., institutions in which supervision by adults is usually rather extensive, experience fewer injuries than children spending their days at home with their parent(s).…”

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confidence: 86%

Injuries in Norwegian Early Childhood and Care (ECEC) Institutions

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Sandseter

Pareliussen

et al. 2017

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Children's play and exploration involves risk and a possibility for being injured. Early childhood and care institutions (ECECs) should provide children with physical challenges in a safe environment. Over the past years, the attention towards playground safety and injuries in ECECs has increased. Norwegian practitioners have a liberal approach to children's risk taking in play, raising questions on injury prevalence in Norwegian ECECs. The aim for this study was to gain knowledge about the injury prevalence and characteristics of the injuries in Norwegian ECECs. Managers from 2105 institutions completed an electronic questionnaire retrospectively asking the managers to report injuries and accidents the past year. The results indicate that injuries are rare in Norwegian ECECs, and that most of the injuries are minor and do not require a follow-up from professional medical personnel. The moderate and severe injuries are very rare, and often mishaps. There are some indications that boys experience injuries more often than girls do and that the most injuries happen outdoors. The main cause of moderate injuries is falling, both outdoors and indoors.

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“…Although no matter what form of entertainment equipment can create a certain value of the game, we should pay more attention to the characteristics of the venue rather than the specific facilities in the venue. Therefore, more and more scholars are beginning to pay attention to the characteristics of the site, such as whether the per capita space is sufficient [19], whether the spatial structure is reasonable [20], and whether the type and structure of the fixed device is humanized [21].Whether the degree of challenge, novelty, and complexity is appropriate [22], the existence of private space [23], the usability of mobile materials or scattered parts [24], etc. Entertainment equipment, practical materials, the challenges of children of all ages, and the opportunity to offer different experiences are all factors that drive high-level games.…”

Section: Insufficient Design Of Children's Outdoor Space Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis on the Space Design of Children's Outdoor Activities in Urban Residential Areas in China

Ding¹,

Lei²,

Du³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

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Based on the definition of children's outdoor activities in residential areas, the relationship between residential areas and children's outdoor activities and the significance of outdoor activities to children are summarized. Problem-oriented, it clarifies the deficiencies in children's outdoor activity space design at the present stage, and reconsiders their real needs for outdoor activity space from the perspective of children. This paper summarizes the relevant theoretical research on the outdoor activity space of children in residential areas at present, and analyzes the design methods from the perspectives of site design, green design, recreation and architectural sketch design, in order to provide useful enlightenment and guidance for relevant theoretical research and design practice. Keywords-residential area; children; outdoor activities; space designI.With the renewal and iteration of urban residential areas, the spatial pattern of children's outdoor activities in traditional residential areas should be innovative and developed. As the main body of the city, the residential area should not only satisfy people's most basic living needs, but should also pay attention to diversified development.

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Outdoor play in early childhood education settings: Is it safe and healthy for children?

Cited by 14 publications

References 1 publication

Restrictive Safety or Unsafe Freedom? Norwegian ECEC Practitioners' Perceptions and Practices Concerning Children's Risky Play

Restrictive Safety or Unsafe Freedom? Norwegian ECEC Practitioners' Perceptions and Practices Concerning Children's Risky Play

Injuries in Norwegian Early Childhood and Care (ECEC) Institutions

Analysis on the Space Design of Children's Outdoor Activities in Urban Residential Areas in China

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