Environments for Outdoor Play A Practical Guide to Making Space for Children [Paperback]

Offers educators frameworks for designing innovative play spaces that provide young children with flexible, inclusive, and stimulating opportunities to learn, develop, and have fun together.Offers educators frameworks for designing innovative play spaces that provide young children with flexible, inclusive, and stimulating opportunities to learn, develop, and have fun together.'This practical book helps the reader plan, design and manage the kinds of settings that afford children the opportunities to carry out the wide range of self-directed activities that are so important to their development. Its ideal for community development workers, the organizers of after-school programs, childrens hospital staff and groups of caring parents' - Roger A. Hart, Director of the Childrens Environments Research Group, The Graduate School of the City University of New York

Recommending solid ideas for developing play environments that meet children's needs, chapters discuss frameworks for designing play environments, case studies offering examples of how play environments can be developed, ideas and activities, research evidence pointing toward the importance of good play environments, and more. ?????

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1. Children's Need For Space To Play
2. Key Stages in Developing the Play Space
3. Features of Enriching, Inclusive Play Settings
4. Inspiration
5. Involvement And Collaboration
6. Bringing It All Together
7. Outcomes For Children And Settings
8. Trouble Shooting and Sources of Advice