Landscapes for Play: Tools for Promoting Nature

The Institute for Early Childhood Education & Research (IECER)
http://earlychildhood.educ.ubc.ca
IECER Spring Institute
in partnership with UBC Child Care Services
Landscapes for Play: Tools for
Promoting Nature-based Risky Play
Saturday, May 23, 2015
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
This workshop will take place at the UBC Child Care
Administration Building, 2881 Acadia Road
This event is free.
RSVP http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/brussoni_May23_2015
Children’s access and opportunity for engaging in risk-taking
through play has never been lower. Safety concerns and fears
of litigation have resulted in excessive protection by parents,
schools, parks, and others. There are unintended negative
implications of this anxiety-based approach to children’s risky
play. Children have limited access to crucial experiences that
promote development, and physical and mental health. This
interactive and interdisciplinary workshop will present tools from
child development, injury prevention, and landscape architecture.
Participants will review the supporting research, learn skills for
shifting parents’, educators’, and policy makers’ attitudes toward
risky play, and acquire tips for designing play spaces to promote
challenge and development.
Certificate for Professional Development hours will be provided.
For further information contact iris.berger@ubc.ca
308C - 2125 Main Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Faculty of Education
Presenter
Dr. Mariana Brussoni
Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Medicine, School of Population
and Public Health.
Her areas of expertise are:
child injury prevention,
child development, risky
outdoor play, injury-related
health inequalities, injury
surveillance, parenting,
fathering, gender relations
and masculinities, and risk
epistemology.