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Creating ChallengingOutdoor Play Spaces
Helen Tovey
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Photo:Alan Sutton. PlayLink Places for Play Exhibition www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk
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A provocative environment invites curiosity and has infinite possibilities
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Creating challenging outdoor
spaces Provocative environments
Space for the imagination
Transformable spaces
Natural spaces
Wild spaces Opportunities for risky dizzy play
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Set and pursue their own tasks
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Exploring,
experimenting,solving
problems
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Spaces for imagination
to flourish
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Incidental
features of the
environment
offer rich
symbolic
potential for
play
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Symbolic
transformation
is hugely significantin childrens thinking
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Materials which can be
transformed not pre formed
`Loose parts
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Enclosures,
dens and
places to hide
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Wild SpacesChildren love awilderness. So one
plot should beallowed to grow wildbut many beautifulthings can be
planted in it.(McMillan 1919:47)
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Importance of rough ground and change of levels
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Engagement with
the natural world
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Community playthings 2009
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Spaces for being daring and adventurous
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Opportunities forchallenge and taking risks
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Culture of risk aversionand risk anxiety ?
Too risky?
Unsafe?
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Risk taking is associated with-
Positive learning dispositions (Guy Claxton) Mastery an I can do it attitude (Carole
Dweck) Playing at the very edge of capabilities
(Vygotsky)
Emotional well being and resilience
Lack of risk in play is damagingchildrenMental Health Foundation (2002)
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We must not lose sight of the importantdevelopmental role of play in pursuit of
the unachievable goal of absolutesafety.
UK Health and Safety Executivecited in Ball, D, Gill, T & Spiegal, B ( 2008) Managing Risk in play provision
www.playengland.org.uk
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Creating challenging spaces
for play Provocative environments
Space for the imagination
Direct engagement with the naturalworld
Wild spaces and uneven terrain
Opportunities for risk and challenge
Adults who engage in and value suchplay
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Does environment make a
difference? Susan Herrington - project to change play area for
birth to threes Aimed to translate knowledge of childrens
development into landscape design.infants-
-more active-used whole space
-more varied and complex play-more interactions with natural environment-significantly more interactions with adults
(Herrington 1997)
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`If you are going to keep children safe you
must provide places in which they can get the
thrills they need; there must be trees they canclimb and ways in which they can safely get
the experience of adventure and the sense of
challenge that they crave.Susan Isaacs 1936
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References
Claxton, G (1999) Wise Up the Challenge of Life Long Learning London: Bloomsbury
Community Playthings (2008) I made a Unicorn. The value of open ended play RobertsbridgeCommunity Playthings
Herrington, S (1997 ) the Received view of Play and the Subculture of infants Landscape Journalvol 16 no 2
Isaacs, S ( 1938) lecture to National Safety Congress in National Froebel Foundation Bulletin1960 no 125
Mental health Foundation (1999) Bright Futures:Promoting Children and Young People's MentalHealth. London, Mental Health Foundation.
McMillan, M ( 1919) The Nursery School London Dent
Stephenson, A ( 2003) Physical risk taking: dangerous or endangered? Early Years Vol 23 no 1
Tovey, H (2007) Playing Outdoors, Spaces and Places, Risk and Challenge. Maidenhead: OpenUniversity Press
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Helen Tovey
Principal lecturer Early Childhood Studies
Roehampton University, London
H.Tovey@Roehampton.ac.uk
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