Webinar: Supporting Children’s Outdoor Risky Play
Research is clear on the importance of regular and repeated access to outdoor risky play. Child care centre is an important learning environment, providing essential opportunities for children’s outdoor risky play. We will focus on the need for outdoor risky play and explore how to include those activities in our work with young children. We will work through real examples, focusing on how to support children’s outdoor risky play based on the recent research done in British Columbia. We will talk about resources and tools you can use while supporting young children’s participation in outdoor risky play.
Living Inquiries:
- Well-being and belonging.
- Engagement with others, materials, and the world.
Pathways:
- Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas.
- Every child is a gift.
- Interests and inquiries.
- Spaces, objects, and materials.
- Time for engagement.
Suitable for adult instructors/ECE Administrators, parents/guardians, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.
Facilitator(s): Hebah Hussaina
Hebah Hussaina is a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC in the Outside Play Lab supervised by Dr. Mariana Brussoni. Hebah has a strong background in pediatric health sciences research in a variety of settings and is passionate about supporting healthy child development and communities. Hebah’s research interests lie in the intersection of pediatric mental health and outdoor & risky play, especially through the lens of health promotion initiatives and knowledge translation. In her spare time, Hebah enjoys baking and cooking for her family and friends, powerlifting in the gym, and spending time exploring outside.
Register here: Webinar: Supporting Children’s Outdoor Risky Play (4810-8100) :: Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
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