Transforming educational practices to increase children’s outdoor play
Insights from three years of study of an outdoor education research project sheds light on how gradual changes in pedagogical practice can create quality outdoor play opportunities for children. A pair of researchers have shared...Read more
Building better play: five ways London playgrounds are getting it right
In this article, the US play researcher Meghan Talarowski reports on how her six-month study of playgrounds in London inspired her, and what it is that she found they were doing better. “Life is either a...Read more
Potential space? Play, parents and streets
In these reflections on this week’s Child in the City International Seminar in London, researcher Alison Stenning asks what playable neighbourhood space means for parents and other adults. She invokes the great play scholar Donald Winnicott in suggesting that...Read more
Play sufficiency is a question of spatial justice
Wales is the first country in the world to legislate specifically for children’s play. In this latest in our series of interviews to coincide with today’s conference on Children’s Play in the Urban Environment, Mike Barclay and Ben...Read more
Adventure playgrounds are too important to be consigned to history
A variety of recent projects in the arts, heritage and academic sectors have taken adventure playgrounds as their theme, bringing welcome attention to this important part of the UK play scene. However, cautions Adrian Voce,...Read more
TED Talks feature play as a theme
The high profile lecture series, TED Talks has compiled a ‘playlist’ of its talks that feature different aspects of play. The talks featured on the TED website cover research into the play of adults, humans and different...Read more