Risky Play: An Ethical Challenge

This open-access book highlights the importance of risky play for children's mental and physical development, and discusses the ethical tensions and dilemmas encountered by professionals who work with children. It suggests better ways to balance do-good ethics and avoid-harm ethics in approaching risky play.

Format: Hardback
Length: 113 pages
Publication date: 11 February 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book brings together current childhood research and contemporary ethical theory to draw attention to how children depend upon a range of actions for risky play for their mental and physical development. In many countries, the opportunities for children to play away from adults have decreased. At both school and home, protection and avoidance of harm take increasing priority. This book draws a distinction between do-good ethics and avoid-harm ethics to highlight ethical tensions and dilemmas encountered by professionals who work with children, and suggests better ways to balance these ethical dimensions in approaching risky play.

This open-access book brings together current childhood research and contemporary ethical theory to draw attention to how children depend upon a range of actions for risky play for their mental and physical development. In many countries, the opportunities for children to play away from adults have decreased. At both school and home, protection and avoidance of harm take increasing priority. This book draws a distinction between do-good ethics and avoid-harm ethics to highlight ethical tensions and dilemmas encountered by professionals who work with children, and suggests better ways to balance these ethical dimensions in approaching risky play.

Weight: 296g
Dimension: 155 x 219 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031255519
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023