Resurrecting free play in young children: looking beyond fitness and fatness to attention, affiliation, and affect.

By H. Burdette, R. Whitaker. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Impact of views to school landscapes on recovery from stress and mental fatigue (2016, background): “Exercise in green space in school may also help students negotiate stress, regain attentional capacity and enhance mental health (Burdette & Whitaker, 2005).”
• HEAD, HEART AND HANDS MODEL FOR TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING: PLACE AS CONTEXT FOR CHANGING SUSTAINABILITY VALUES (2015, background): “Nature experiences have been associated with cognitive, emotional, social and psycho-motor development as well as mental and physical health (Burdette & Whitaker, 2005; Frumkin, 2001; Kellert, 2002; Louv, 2005).”
• Preservice early childhood educators’ perceptions of outdoor settings as learning environments (2012, background): “As children are spending increasingly less time playing and less time outdoors interacting with nature (Burdette and Whitaker 2005) and as the potential increases for new early childhood educators to have grown up without experiences in nature (Crim, Desjean-Perrotta, and Moseley 2008), there is a…”
• Promoting Social and Emotional Learning With Games (2009, background): “The finding that children’s social competence develops in the context of interacting with their peers is especially important as children of primary school age have fewer opportunities out of school for interacting freely with peers and thus developing social competence ( Burdette, 2005 ).”
• Parent’s Social Support for Children’s Outdoor Physical Activity: Do Weekdays and Weekends Matter? (2007, background): “Outdoor play, apart from its potential to increase energy expenditure and, subsequently, to reduce obesity rates, may also promote positive affect, affiliation, and attention, aspects suggested to promote overall well-being ( Burdette & Whitaker, 2005 ).”
• Early childhood educators’ use of natural outdoor settings as learning environments: an exploratory study of beliefs, practices, and barriers (2014, background): “…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; Wells 2000).”
• Physical Activity, Self-Regulation, and Early Academic Achievement in Preschool Children (2014, background): “Physical activity can take many forms throughout the life span, and play is the primary means by which physical activity is achieved in early childhood (Burdette & Whitaker, 2005).”