The natural environment as a playground for children: Landscape description and analyses of a natural playscape

By I. Fjørtoft, J. Sageie. 2000

476 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Karen Malone
2. P. Tranter
3. A. Luchs
4. Monika Fikus
5. H. Little
6. S. Wyver
7. E. Brymer
8. I. Fjørtoft

In Social Psychology

1. H. Little
2. S. Wyver
3. Karen Malone
4. P. Tranter
5. Keith Davids
6. Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter
7. E. Brymer
8. I. Fjørtoft

Citations in the corpus

• The Natural Environment as a Playground for Children: The Impact of Outdoor Play Activities in Pre-Primary School Children (2001, background): “Very special was the flexible juniper bush, which motivated for functional play (how tochildren (Fjørtoft & Sageie, 2000).”
• A comparative study of active play on differently designed playgrounds (2013, background): “Natural environments invite more physical activities than traditional playgrounds (Boldermann et al., 2006; Fjørtoft, 2004; Fjørtoft & Sageie, 2000).”
• Early Childhood Teachers' Beliefs about Children's Risky Play in Australia and Norway (2012, background): “On the other hand, Norwegian pedagogy has a significant focus on physical activity and outdoor play (Fjørtoft & Sageie, 2000) which is likely to have a significant role in supporting the translation of beliefs and knowledge into practice.”
• Geographies of environmental learning: an exploration of children's use of school grounds (2004, background): “Natural environments have advantages over purpose built playgrounds (e.g. climbing apparatus) because they stimulate more diverse and creative play (Fjortoft and Sageie, 2000).”
• The empowering variability of affordances of nature: Why do exercisers feel better after performing the same exercise in natural environments than in indoor environments? (2019, background): “This hypothesis has been explored by Fjørtoft and colleagues (Fjørtoft & Sageie, 2000; Fjørtoft, Kristoffersen & Sageie, 2009) in the context of children’s free play.”
• Outdoor Play (2008, background): “Similarly, in countries such as Norway where valuing the natural environment is part of the culture (Fjortoft & Sageie, 2000), many early childhood settings provide children with a vast array of experiences such as hiking, climbing trees and water activities in natural outdoor environments.”