Risky play references

Full stretch fun (p4)

Dr Mel McCree

Mentioned in or related to Mel's article and interviews

• 2015 All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Healthy Childhood, report on play
• Dr Mariana Brussoni’s outdoor play lab
• Chatterjee, S. (2-17), Access to Play for Children in Situations of Crisis: Synthesis of Research in Six Countries. IPA Report.
• Prof Helen Dodd’s Pandemic Play project
  Also - watch her explaining the project from 2020
• 5rights Foundation, Risky play online
• Cities Alive; Designing for Urban Childhoods, ARUP Report, 2017
• The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
  WEIRD societies: Henrich, J. (2020). Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York.
• Backseat Generations

Karl Rohnke's comfort/stretch/panic model

The Comfort, Stretch, Panic model
Comfort, Stretch And Panic Zones In Social Skills Development
Youtube: An Introduction to Karl Rohnke’s Comfort/Stretch/Panic Model

Key resources we recommend on the subject of risky play

• Managing Risk in Play Provision (2nd edn., 2012)
  A classic guide.
• Outdoor Play Canada
  So much here, with thanks to Dr Brussoni, including a risky play quiz and interactive content for parents and educators, and a Risk Benefit Assessment (Canadian Toolkit). Pass it on!
• Loose Parts Play Toolkit from Inspiring Scotland
  Developed in response to the play sector, by Inspiring Scotland with Juliet Robertson and Theresa Casey
• London Play’s risk assessment form & PIPA RBA toolkit

Risky Play International (p6)

Niki Buchan

www.naturallearning.net.au

Six behaviours of risky play

Categorising risky play - how can we identify risk-taking in children’s play?
Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter

Niki's books

Children in Wild Nature
A Practical Guide to Nature-based Practice
Adventurous Play
Co-author STEM Detectives

Adventures in play (p9)

Nicole Weinstein

@nw_weinstein

Child’s Play: Examining the Association Between Time Spent Playing and Child Mental Health Helen Dodd
Categorising risky play - how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play?
Is the Catch-up Programme fit for purpose? (p3)

Nature connection through risk (p16)

Louise Ambrose

Youtube: Forest School Lou

Prof. Miles Richardson, Finding Nature Research Blog: Beyond Nature Contact to Connection: A Missing Link in a Sustainable and Worthwhile Life
Tom Senninger, The Learning Zone Model
Frontiers for Young Minds, Have No Fear, the Brain is Here! How Your Brain Responds to Stress

Practitioners Voice

Kathryn Solly (p12)

Matt Harder (p28)

Bluebell Bushcraft

Design and technology programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2. National curriculum in England
Outdoor risky play and healthy child development in the shadow of the ‘risk society’: A forest and nature school perspective

Interviews with Dr Mel McCree (p30-32)

Tim Gill, Rethinking Childhood
Vicki Stewart, Brightwood Training
Sam Goddard, Cambium Sustainable

See also