Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool: The Importance of Features in the Play Environment

Autor/in	Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen
Titel	Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool: The Importance of Features in the Play Environment
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Education Journal, 36 (2009) 5, S.439-446 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-3301
DOI	10.1007/s10643-009-0307-2
Schlagwörter	Play; Playgrounds; Visual Perception; At Risk Students; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Environmental Influences; Educational Environment; Student Attitudes; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Playground; Spielplatz; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schülerverhalten; Norwegen
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to qualitatively explore the affordances for risky play in two different preschool outdoor environments, an ordinary preschool playground and a nature playground, based on Gibson ("The ecological approach to visual perception," 1979) theory of affordances and Heft's and Kyttea's (Heft in "Children's Environ Qual" 5(3) 29-37, 1988; Kytta in "J Environ Psychol" 22:109-123, 2002, Kytta in "J Environ Psychol" 24:179-198, 2004) extended work on this theory. Observations of risky play in two Norwegian preschools, one ordinary preschool (where play took place on an ordinary playground) and one nature and outdoor preschool (where play took place in a nature area) were conducted. In addition, the children were interviewed about their actualized affordances of risky play, their mobility license, and the constraints on risky play. The results show that both play environments afford an extensive amount of risky play among the children, and that the degree of mobility license tolerated by the staff is an important factor for the children to actualize these affordances. Differences in the qualities and features in the two play environments were found to have an impact on the degree of riskiness in the play situations. As such, the nature playground afforded a higher degree of risk in children's risky play. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10