📢 New paper out today! What do parents think about adventurous/risky play happening in schools?🏫Open access as always! 🔓Professor Helen Dodd➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ch…

Mortgage repayments & rents are going through the roof while the RBA signals its intention to continue increasing interest rates. Surely there’s a better way to cool the economy without pulling cash out of the pockets of Australians & pouring it into the coffers of the banks.

#AIESEPConnect returns for another year! January kicks off with Physical Literacy Interventions Across the Lifespan on January 25th 9am CET (7pm AEDT). To join Zoom ID: 883 0221 3950 P: 77055251

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Involved in children's play, sport or recreation? Worried about safety, and how to get the balance right? This free webinar from Play Scotland on the ground-breaking ISO 4980 is for you. Hear from David Ball, Andy Yates, Harry Harbottle and me. billetto.co.uk/e/uk-play-safe…

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This is by far the best book I've read this year: the blind spot why science cannot ignore human experience amazon.com/s?k=the+blind+…

Looking beneath the surface: associations between varied outdoor surfaces and children’s diverse play behaviours in early childhood education and care institutions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Out today Jonathan Haidt's new book, The Anxious Generation. Free children from phones & bring back a play-based childhood! afterbabel.com/p/its-time-to-…

Don't miss this important new book on who holds the power in the food industry: Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry: 9781642832693: Frerick, Austin, Schlosser, Eric: Books amazon.com/Barons-Money-C…

📢📢Academics & researchers!! OutsidePlayUBC & Exeter Med School are completing a systematic review on risky play & child health outcomes. We want to make sure to include all relevant articles. If you have papers to suggest, please send them to [email protected]

PhD opportunity on the politics of implementation, scale up and sustainability in physical activity Deakin University supervised by Harriet Koorts 🇿🇦🇬🇧 in 🇦🇺 Anna Timperio JianiMa and me. Open to international candidates too. Happy to discuss. ipan.deakin.edu.au/connect/phd-op…

Great article by The Sector on research by The Centre for Research for Educational Impact's Dr Chris Speldewinde on the benefits of risky and messy play to teach children about STEM. Read the full article👇: thesector.com.au/2024/05/13/lin…

Risky play & outdoor learning special issue Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education incl 👇 🏃Kids' play environs & risky play opportunities Rachel Ramsden 📝Outdoor learning during pandemic Megan Zeni Leyton Schnellert Dr. Mariana Brussoni

Check out the list of helpful resources and articles related to outdoor risky play from our friends at @Outsideplayubc.👇 outdoorplaycanada.ca/portfolio_page… ___ #Play #OutdoorPlay #OutdoorPlayCA #Canada #PositionStatement #Policy #Programming

For decades, free play has been squeezed out of children's daily lives. My work focuses on one dimension: *space* to play. This brilliant article shines a light on another: *time* to play. As Jonathan Haidt argues, a generation have been left struggling. theguardian.com/education/arti…

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Seriously fun! If you have a free hour this coming school holidays and your child is 9 or 10 years old ➡️ register today ➡️researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_2a…😃

"Gen Z are the most closely monitored generation ever to be born. We criticise children and teenagers for not going outside – but at the same time we’re curtailing their freedoms and closing their spaces." 2 tech journos on the realities of kids' lives. theguardian.com/games/article/…