Risk and Outdoor Play: Listening Responding to Collective Voices: Part 2

This book is the second of two volumes that coalesces a diverse group of play researchers, educators, advocates, practitioners and enthusiasts’ ‘voices’. This book is the second of two volumes that coalesces a diverse group of play researchers, educators, advocates, practitioners and enthusiasts’ ‘voices’. The goal put forth is to listen, learn and pave a way forward for increased opportunities for all children to engage in outdoor risky play. Throughout this book, the chapters highlight the importance of listening to multiple voices to learn about diverse viewpoints, challenges and experiences. This book offers alternate ways to deliver education that prioritize play for its magnitude of benefits. By challenging the dominant discourse of both outdoor play and risk, it provides firsthand accounts of how education and play might be enacted. In taking the time to contemplate the myriad of approaches, this book empowers readers to be brave in implementing courageous decisions that embrace children’s right to risky play.Chapter "The Great Playventure: Exploring Play-Based Learning Through the Journey of Building a School" is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via Springerlink.