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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
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?
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.
About the Author
Helen Tovey is Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the Froebel College, Roehampton University, London, UK. She has extensive experience of working with young children and developing outdoor play settings both as a nursery school teacher and head teacher. She has established an international reputation for her work on outdoor environments.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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This book was very useful to me fo my Master's Dissertation. It covered almost everything...what's more, I worked with the author herself. I would say she is an authority in outdoor play.
This book contains everything- the historical aspects of outdoor play and all. Reall good book. I's surely recommend.
This book contains everything- the historical aspects of outdoor play and all. Reall good book. I's surely recommend.
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I found this book extremely useful, and easy to read. One I would certainly recommend to anyone studying Early years foundation stage degree.
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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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