Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds
dc.contributor.author | Hinchion, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.author | McAuliffe, Ellen | |
dc.contributor.author | Lynch, Helen | |
dc.contributor.funder | Horizon 2020 | en |
dc.contributor.funder | H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-23T13:07:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-23T13:07:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-20 | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-08-23T13:01:52Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Outdoor play provides children with unique opportunities to explore and expand their worlds, and to incorporate risk and challenge into play events. However, international research indicates that children are being exposed to fewer opportunities to engage in outdoor, risky play, while few studies have explored risky play among children aged six-to-eight years in differing cultural contexts. This qualitative study explored children’s perspectives and experiences of outdoor risky play in a rural Irish town. Ten children took part in focus groups, drawings, photography, a child-led tour of the local community and a map-making session. Three themes emerged; Risky play and me, my power to play and ‘sometimes it is kind of worth it!’. Findings suggest that risky play categories evolve as children age, and some new categories surfaced, including risky construction and breaking the rules. Further exploration of risky play is warranted to ascertain its characteristics more fully among this age group. | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Hinchion, S., McAuliffe, E. and Lynch, H. (2021) 'Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds', European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, pp. 1-19. doi: 10.1080/1350293X.2021.1968460 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/1350293X.2021.1968460 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 19 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1350-293X | |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | European Early Childhood Education Research Journal | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/11769 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
dc.relation.project | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::MSCA-ITN-EJD/861257/EU/People, Place, Policy and Practice for Play/P4PLAY | en |
dc.relation.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350293X.2021.1968460 | |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Outdoor play | en |
dc.subject | Children | en |
dc.subject | Nature | en |
dc.subject | Participatory methods | en |
dc.title | Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |