Outdoor Learning Environments - Spaces for Exploration, Discovery and Risk-Taking in the Early Years

List of contents

List of tables and figures

Contributors

1. Why do outdoor play and learning matter?

PART I: Outdoor environments as pedagogical spaces

2. Risk-taking in outdoor play: Challenges and possibilities

3. Green outdoor environments: Settings for promoting children's health and wellbeing

4. Caring for the environment: Towards sustainable futures

5. Birds and babies: A meeting of species

PART II: Designing and planning for outdoor learning

6. Planning outdoor learning environments

7. Application of standards and regulations to early years outdoor playspaces

PART III: Children's voices

8. Strengthening children's agency in outdoor learning environments

9. The private play places of childhood

10. Creating a school playground in Papua New Guinea: A participatory approach with young children

PART IV: Cultural perspectives

11. Indigenous perspectives on outdoor learning environments: On Country learning

12. Outdoor play in Norwegian and Australian early years settings: Differences in theory, pedagogy and practice

PART V: The outdoors and beyond

13. Beyond the fence: Exploring forest preschool/school approaches in Australia

14. Urban environments and outdoor learning

Acknowledgements

Index

About the author

Dr Helen Little is a Senior Lecturer and Early Childhood Program Director in the Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University. She has undertaken extensive research on risk-taking in outdoor play.

Dr Sue Elliott is a Senior Lecturer and Course Co-ordinator in Early Childhood Education at the University of New England. She has research interests in education for sustainability and natural outdoor playspaces.

Dr Shirley Wyver is a Senior Lecturer in child development in the Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University. Her research interests are in early play and cognitive/social development.

Summary

An early childhood undergraduate text explaining the importance of outdoor play in the early years.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Elliott, Sue (University of New England Elliott, Helen Little, Helen Elliott Little, Shirley Wyver
• Assisted by: Sue Elliott (Editor), Helen Little (Editor), Little Helen (Editor), Shirley Wyver (Editor), Wyver Shirley (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718893
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71889-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Australian & Oceanian, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Outdoor schools / education