Further reading on risk from the Muddy Faces bookshop and beyond.
Do you want to create exciting outdoor experiences for children? Are you looking for guidance on how to incorporate the wilder and riskier elements of outdoor play into your planning?a
This book is essential reading for practitioners and students that wish to provide rich experiences for children that will enable them to become confident and adventurous learners.
Adults often try to create a risk-free environment, but this can reduce children's opportunities to manage their own risk, making it difficult for them to learn how to judge new situations.
Explore how risky play outdoors benefits children in Early Years, nurseries, primary schools, Forest School & other outdoor settings. Contributors include outdoor experts Kathryn Solly, Nikki Buchan, Dr Mel McCree, Prof Jan White and Tim Gill.
Gill T (2017). In: Waller, T. et al (2017). The SAGE Handbook of Outdoor Play and Learning.
Thousand Oaks, US: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Gill, T. (2007). London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Influential report on the wider implications for child development of avoiding risk.
Tovey, H. (2007). Maidenhead: Open University Press
A discussion of the strands that make quality outdoor perspectives with a Froebelian perspective.
Palmer, S. (2006). London: Orion
English polemic by a passionate teacher that suggests that we are failing the next generation by the lifestyle we are creating.
Beck, U. (1986). London: Sage Publications.
Risky play references
References and further reading mentioned in the Risky Play issue of the Outdoor Practitioner magazine.
