Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds: Using the Playground as a Curriculum Resource

Play is essential for children's well-being and development, and all students should have access to adequate time for positive play experiences every day. Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds emphasizes the importance of school playgrounds as spaces crucial to learning, well-being, and development. It combines research findings, commentary, personal experiences, and perspectives of teachers, principals, parents, and students to explore the role of adults, the influence of technology, challenges faced by children transitioning to new school environments, and strategies to support students' access and participation in the playground. The book presents cases to illustrate the use of an audit tool to enhance school playgrounds and considers the future of school playgrounds through the reported hopes and dreams of adults and students. It calls for the recognition of positive play experiences as invaluable to children's education and provides valuable insights to inform decision-making and guide the review and development of outdoor play spaces for schools.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 150 pages
\n Publication date: 12 March 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
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Play is a vital component of children's well-being and development, and all students should have access to and adequate time for positive play experiences every day. Play is not just a leisure activity; it is an essential part of learning and socialization. In this book, Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds, we invite parents, teachers, principals, and education administrators to take a fresh look at their school playgrounds as spaces that are crucial to learning, well-being, and development.

Research findings, commentary, and personal experiences of the authors are combined with the views of teachers, principals, parents, and students related to play and play spaces. Key content includes the role of adults in the school playground, the influence of technology on play, the challenges experienced by children transitioning to new school environments, and strategies to support students' access and participation in the playground.

Cases are presented to illustrate the use of an audit tool to enhance school playgrounds. The future of school playgrounds is also considered through the reported hopes and dreams of adults and students, and a range of recommendations are made for the review and development of schools' outdoor play spaces.

Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds is written with a sense of urgency, calling for the recognition of positive play experiences as invaluable to children's education. It includes important and challenging insights to inform and guide decision-making and will be an essential resource for all stakeholders who share responsibility for children's participation and learning during school break-times.

\n Weight: 254g\n
Dimension: 234 x 168 x 9 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780815355038\n \n