Categorising risky play—how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play?

By Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter. 2007

291 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology

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In Safety Research

1. H. Little
2. S. Wyver

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1. H. Little
2. S. Wyver
3. Frederico Lopes
4. R. Cordovil
5. T. L. Hagen
6. Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter
7. Rune Storli

Citations in the corpus

• Barriers for Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Institutions: Perception of Risk in Children’s Play among European Parents and ECEC Practitioners (2020, background): “This definition was further extended by Sandseter (2007, 2010) as six categories of risky play: (a) play with great HEIGHTS—danger of injury from falling, for instance climbing (in all forms), jumping from heights, hanging/dangling from heights, balancing from heights, (b) play with high…”
• Children's Expressions of Exhilaration and Fear in Risky Play (2009, methodology): “…were not a focus of this study partly because play with dangerous tools and play near dangerous elements were categories that, according to Sandseter (2007), were perceived as risky primarily by the staff and not by the children, and because children’s expressions in play where the…”
• Ten Ways to Restrict Children's Freedom to Play: The Problem of Surplus Safety (2010, unknown): “Studies have shown that especially play with great heights, high speed, near dangerous elements such as cliffs, deep water, etc., and play with dangerous tools such as knives and axes are perceived as risky kinds of play by Norwegian kindergarten staff (Sandseter, 2007a).”
• Restrictive Safety or Unsafe Freedom? Norwegian ECEC Practitioners' Perceptions and Practices Concerning Children's Risky Play (2012, background): “Risky play has been identified as play in which children engage in something new and unknown, including the feeling of being on the borderline of control (Stephenson, 2003), and often involving great heights, high speed, and harmful tools or elements (Sandseter, 2007a).”
• Characteristics of risky play (2009, background): “In a study aiming at systematically categorizing the various kinds of risky play through interviews and observations of children and staff in Norwegian preschool, Sandseter ( 2007a ) revealed six categories of risky play.”
• Landscapes for play: Effects of an intervention to promote nature-based risky play in early childhood centres (2017, unknown): “(Sandseter, 2007).”
• Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool: The Importance of Features in the Play Environment (2009, methodology): “This finding may be explained by previous findings that showed that this category of risky play is only perceived as risky from the preschool staff’s point of view (Sandseter 2007), while the children are not aware of the risk present. Early Childhood Educ J (2009) 36:439–446 445”
• Early Childhood Teachers' Beliefs about Children's Risky Play in Australia and Norway (2012, background): “These characteristics of risky play were further extended by Sandseter (2007a) in research conducted in Norwegian preschools.”