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This research article details a critical participatory action research (CPAR) project examining outdoor play and learning (OPAL) in British Columbia elementary schools. The study highlights the benefits of CPAR in addressing teacher isolation and building capacity for OPAL. Limitations and contributions of the research are discussed.
2024/12/20
This research paper details a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating a multi-faceted intervention (PRO-ECO) designed to increase outdoor play among preschoolers in eight Canadian early childhood education centers. The intervention involved policy changes, educator training, outdoor space modifications, and parent engagement.
2024/12/20
2024/07/31
The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of youth located in the Greater Vancouver Metropolitan District (GVMD), of British Columbia, Canada, who engage in or would like to engage in outdoor time at secondary schools as a mental health promotion strategy.
2024/04/24
To promote children’s independent mobility (CIM) in rural and remote areas, efforts should focus on providing education on wildlife encounters, creating safe and interesting destinations for play, and consider children’s safety and connectivity in road design.
2024/04/24
To promote children’s independent mobility (CIM) in rural and remote areas, efforts should focus on providing education on wildlife encounters, creating safe and interesting destinations for play, and consider children’s safety and connectivity in road design.
2024/03/21
Outdoor free play encompasses unstructured, self-directed play in the outdoors and has been shown to support children’s health and development. Accurate and reliable measures are required to conduct research on children’s outdoor free play and examine cross-sectional and longitudinal variation. This study systematically reviews and evaluates measurement approaches for children’s outdoor free play used in existing literature.
2024/03/21
This paper investigates factors influencing risk-taking by examining young children’s play behaviours across two studies utilizing the same behaviour mapping framework.
2023/12/19
Sando OJ, Sandseter EBH, Brussoni M. The role of play and objects in children’s deep-level learning in early childhood education. Education Sciences. 2023;13(7). Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13070701
2023/11/21
Zeni M, Schnellert L, Brussoni M. “We do it anyway”: Professional identities of teachers who enact risky play as a framework for Education Outdoors. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 2023. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-023-00140-6.
2023/11/21
Sando OJ, Sandseter EBH, Brussoni M. The role of play and objects in children’s deep-level learning in early childhood education. Education Sciences. 2023;13(7):701. Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/2227- 7102/13/7/701.
2023/10/31
Duflos M, Lane J, Brussoni M. Motivations and challenges for grandparent–grandchild outdoor play in early childhood: Perception of Canadian grandparents. Family Relations. 2023. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fare.12952
2023/10/31
Duflos M, Hussaina H, Olsen L, Ishikawa T, Brussoni M. Is parental propensity to risk associated with their child’s medically-attended injuries? A cross-sectional study. Journal of Safety Research. 2023;85:436-41. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002243752300049X.
2023/10/31
Michelle Emma Eileen Bauer, Audrey R. Giles & Mariana Brussoni (2023) Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”, Journal of Leisure Research, 54:3, 337-353, DOI: 10.1080/00222216.2022.2119115
2023/10/26
Gemmell, E., Ramsden, R., Brussoni, M. et al. Influence of Neighborhood Built Environments on the Outdoor Free Play of Young Children: a Systematic, Mixed-Studies Review and Thematic Synthesis. J Urban Health 100, 118–150 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00696-6
2023/10/26
Riley K, Froehlich Chow A, Wahpepah K, Humbert ML, Brussoni M, Houser N, et al. Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) in Nature’s Way-Our Way: braiding physical literacy and risky play through Indigenous games, activities, cultural connections, and traditional teachings. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 2023. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/11771801231167881
2023/10/26
Lee, EY., de Lannoy, L., Li, L. et al. Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors—Network (PLaTO-Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 19, 66 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01294-0
2023/10/25
Brussoni M, Han CS, Lin Y, Jacob J, Munday F, Zeni M, Walters M, Oberle E Evaluation of the Web-Based OutsidePlay-ECE Intervention to Influence Early Childhood Educators’ Attitudes and Supportive Behaviors Toward Outdoor Play: Randomized Controlled Trial J Med Internet Res 2022;24(6):e36826 doi: 10.2196/36826 PMID: 35687394 PMCID: 9233267
2023/10/25
Boyes, R., Pickett, W., Janssen, I. et al. Physical environment features that predict outdoor active play can be measured using Google Street View images. Int J Health Geogr 22, 26 (2023).
2023/09/28
McCallum KS, Youngblood J, Hayden KA, Brussoni M, Emery C, Bridel W. Children’s knowledge about play-related risk, risk-taking, and injury: a meta-study. Leisure/Loisir. 2023:1-26. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2242859
2023/08/31
Duflos M, Hussaina H, Brussoni M. “When I’m playing with him, everything else in my life sort of falls away”: exploring grandparents’ and grandchildren’s learning through outdoor play. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 2023:1-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2023.2230503
2023/06/11
2023/03/28
Lee, EY., de Lannoy, L., Li, L. et al. Correction: Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors — Network (PLaTO-Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 20, 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01403-z
2023/01/26
Molyneux, T.M., Zeni, M. & Oberle, E. Choose Your Own Adventure: Promoting Social and Emotional Development Through Outdoor Learning. Early Childhood Educ J (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01394-3
2022/10/25
Cheng T, Brussoni M, Han C, Munday F, Zeni M. Perceived challenges of early childhood educators in promoting unstructured outdoor play: an ecological systems perspective. Early Years. 2022:1-17.
2022/07/12
Brussoni, M. The importance of policies promoting children’s outdoor play. Paris, France: 2021 Jun. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
2021/07/12