Risk and Outdoor Play

This book is the first of two volumes that provide an international snapshot of the contemporary state of outdoor risky play. Utilising a range of voices, it brings together perspectives from the United States of America, Australia, England, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Turkey, Italy, Canada, and South Africa, to explore issues such as the enablers and opportunities afforded by risky outdoor play. With diminished opportunities for children to engage in free play in the great outdoors and connect with nature, there has never been a more important time to examine this topic in greater detail. By unifying voices from across the globe, this book seeks to empower each child s right to learn and develop naturally in risky outdoor play.

Outdoor risky play a wildly successful and growing movement across the globe. - Playful learning landscapes in the united states encouraging intellectual and social risk in everyday spaces. - The pendulum swings developing a healthy risk appetite for outdoor play adventurous learning and child brain development. - Maximising project sustainability the children and nature outdoor learning programme in england. - Exploring the impact of national health and safety legislation in new zealand on childrens play opportunities at school. - Making progress in outdoor play among preschools in highly urbanised Singapore. - Naturkraft a project to increase nature connectedness among families in finland. - A cross cultural comparative study on turkish and german parents attitudes towards childrens risky play from nature based preschools. - May we be peaceful systems change through daily practice. - Shifting perspectives what we risk by limiting access to outdoor education in south africa.