The Natural Environment as a Playground for Children: The Impact of Outdoor Play Activities in Pre-Primary School Children

By I. Fjørtoft. 2001

602 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Julie Ernst
2. Sue Elliott
3. B. Chancellor
4. H. Little
5. S. Wyver
6. J. Sageie
7. A. Sääkslahti
8. S. Iivonen

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Sue Elliott
2. B. Chancellor
3. Julie Ernst
4. S. Wyver
5. H. Little
6. J. Sageie
7. Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter

Citations in the corpus

• Early childhood educators’ use of natural outdoor settings as learning environments: an exploratory study of beliefs, practices, and barriers (2014, background): “Nature experiences have been associated with improved physical health and development (Baranowski et al. 1993; Fjortoft 2001, 2004), psychological well-being (Moore 1996; Wells and Evans 2003), and superior cognitive functioning (Burdette and Whitaker 2005; Charles 2009; Fjortoft and Sageie 2000;…”
• Outdoor Play (2008, background): “development in all areas, particularly motor fitness and motor ability (Fjortoft, 2001; Fjortoft & Sageie, 2000), in a”
• The Power of Outdoor Play and Play in Natural Environments (2016, background): “Researchers found that when the daily outdoor environments in which children played were highly naturalized, children demonstrated increased knowledge of, and interest in, nature (Fjortoft, 2001).”
• The natural environment as a playground for children: Landscape description and analyses of a natural playscape (2000, background): “Furthermore, it was focused on the learning effects that all-round play in nature might have on children's motor development (Fjùrtoft, 1998, 1999).”
• From Forest Preschool to Bush Kinder: An Inspirational Approach to Preschool Provision in Australia (2014, result): “These reports reaffirm earlier research which identified that Scandinavian preschool children who spent more time outdoors and had access to woodlands demonstrated physical benefits and increased social and imaginative play (Fjortoft, 2001, 2004; Grahn, Martensson, Lindblad, Nilsson & Ekman, 1997).”
• Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda (2017, background): “In children, evidence suggests that play in natural environments is associated with the development of motor skills such as balance and coordination, which in turn enable and predict physical activity (Fjørtoft 2001; Fjørtoft 2004).”
• The development of fundamental motor skills of four‐ to five‐year‐old preschool children and the effects of a preschool physical education curriculum (2011, background): “Balance and locomotor skills improved in five- to seven-year-old Norwegian children whose preschool PE consisted of playing in a natural environment playground (Fjortoft, 2001).”
• Nature and its Influence on Children’s Outdoor Play (2011, background): “Research has linked nature with physical benefits, including improved co-ordination, balance and agility (Fjortoft, 2001) and health benefits such as reduced sickness and a speedier recovery (White, 2004b).”