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Playing Outdoors: Spaces And Places, Risk And Challenge: Spaces and Places, Risks and Challenge (Debating Play) Paperback – Illustrated, November 1, 2007

by Helen Tovey (Author)
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"For all members of the Leave No Child Inside movement who are engaged with early childhood—as educators, child care providers, nature center staff, parents, landscape designers, or pediatricians—this book is an essential resource."
Louise Chawla, Children and Nature Network, USA

  • What do children learn through playing outdoors?
  • What makes an effective and challenging play space?
  • What is a safe environment and can children be too safe?
  • How can adults best support challenging play outdoors? Young children seek adventure and challenge in their play outdoors. They look for places they can explore and spaces they can transform. However, provision for exciting and challenging play outdoors is often restricted because of an over-emphasis on safety, and also because the value of play outdoors is not well understood.

    This book offers a clear rationale for why outdoor play is essential in young children's lives and learning. It asks fundamental questions about what sort of environments we want for young children, as well as examining controversial issues of risk and safety.

    The author identifies key principles underpinning the design of challenging outdoor play environments and examines how children use and transform space to create their own imaginary worlds. The essential role of the adult in supporting and extending children's free play is examined and implications for practice identified.

    This book makes an important contribution to current debates on risk, safety and challenge in outdoor environments for young children. It brings together research from a range of different disciplines, as well as illustrative examples of children's play and talk outdoors.

    Playing Outdoors is inspiring reading for early childhood practitioners, students, play workers, parents, policy makers and all those seeking to develop challenging outdoor play areas.

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  1. Part of series
    Debating Play
  2. Print length
    176 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Open University Press
  5. Publication date
    November 1, 2007
  6. Dimensions
    5.31 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0335216412
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0335216413
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open University Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0335216412
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0335216413
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars playing outdoors spaces and places risks and challenge
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well written and informative book looking into the importance of children playing outdoors especially today when we are worried about safety for our children. The book gives useful advice about what children learn and how to provide for them outdoors, it also gives information about the pioneers who in their day valued the natural world also, Froebel, Montessori, and McMillan. Studying for a BA in Childhood Studies this book has given a good insight into the importance of being outdoors with children
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well explained
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2013
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This is a great book if you are on a foundation course in education. However, i bought this book because my dissertation is on play and it explains everything you need for outdoor space, how to use it, and how practitioners could improve their settings. Good price too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2015
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I used this book at lot during my early childhood studies degree especially for children's geographies
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Fabulous book
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Really useful book for my study!
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