Explain the process of managing risk and how it applies to Forest SchoolThere is increasing debate around the idea that children need to take more risk in their play. The prevalence of indoor, gadget based play and screen-time as downtime means children are spending less and less of their day “playing out”. Even if they do go out to play children are very rarely given a freedom to roam. In fact according to a recent study the distance a child is permitted to wander from their home has decreased by 90% in the past 30 years.1This has become such an issue that an all party parliamentary group on a fit and healthy childhood recently examined the problems and potential solutions and published their report “Play”. Among other conclusions were the statements that children should engage in ....“Risky play involving...height, speed, playing near .... water, cliffs, exploring alone”The report highlighted the benefits of such play as being an ability to develop an understanding of “risk assessment and mastery, (of) learning to balance feelings of fear and excitement...lead(ing) to a development of a healthy self esteem, self reliance and resilience.”Meanwhile in a recent interview for The Telegraph (01/02/15).
In an article Nilsen references, children’s play is described as, “furnishing a delightful way to say “Bang”; it is not recognized as a deadly weapon with any sense of reality” (Hartley 123). Nilsen uses this point to create a stronger argument and remind us that kids will be kids, innocent and
The article also states that, “Dr. Brymer said that the participants while unable to control nature, were educated about conditions, and were very careful to minimize potential risks.” Saying that player does everything in their power to not get hurt or injured. While people would consider them dangerous in reality extreme sports is a stress reliever for some. Back to London 's quote he says he won 't waste his days. The player enjoys the “extreme” part of the sport as he/
In the autobiography The Push, Tommy Caldwell describes his journey as a rock climber and the risks he had to take to get to where he is now. Paul Roberts, in his article Risk, addresses why people take major risks and the addictive factors that are involved, even when they are faced with intense fear. In the Journal of Health Psychology article, Extreme Sports Are Good For Your Health, Eric Brymer and Robert Schweitzer hint on risk and discuss fear as an experience and the relationship that people have with it.
Children are not experiencing the outdoors the way they used to. It used to be that children would look out the window at the world when they went on road trips but now they are constantly absorbed by their electronic devices. The Last Child in the Wood by Richard Louv is making a very strong argument on this topic. Richard Louv is concerned with making sure children make the same connections about nature that many generations have made before them. In this piece Louv used rhetorical questioning to draw attention to his most crucial points.
In David Dodds’, article Beautiful Teenage Brains (2011) he explains how teenagers are more willing to take risks than adults because unlike adults, they value reward more heavily. He provides evidence of researchers like psychologist Laurence Steinberg and his findings at Temple University. Where Steinberg observed adolescents and adults separately play a video game and recorded the difference in their actions with and without an audience. He also uses information obtained by Casey a neuroscientist at the Weill Cornel Medical College. The author's purpose for writing this article is so adults especially parents can gain some knowledge of what it is that’s going on in teenager’s brains to be more aware along with the teenagers themselves.
“The Overprotected Kid” seems to be written to an audience of new parents or parents dealing with teenagers. However, both looking for instructions on how to properly raise their children. At the start of the article, Rosin describes the setting of young kids playing at “The Land” and how this particular playground was made not just for entertainment, but for the overall development of a child. By lessing parental supervisors and increasing the freedom to learn in an environment, the kids can shape and mold it to be whatever they need while allowing the children to assimilate risks
Summary “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” by Jessica Statsky is a thoughtful insight on the competitive sports for children. She is of the view that the competitive sports can ruin the enjoyment that games are supposed to provide. These methods of playing the games like adults can prove to be lethal for physical and psychological health. The author quotes from an authentic source that “Kids under the age of fourteen are not by nature physical.” (Tutko)
5.2 Analyse the role of play in enabling children to learn to manage risk for themselves and others Although we want children to take risks and challenge themselves we also need to manage these risks to ensure the children are safe. Talking to the children about the various risks they could come across whilst playing let’s children make their own choices and decide how they can avoid these
Students in a classroom need to have a set time to be able to go outdoors. As a future teacher, I plan to incorporate nature inside and outside the classroom. For example; in the classroom one can accomplish the walls to have trees, and the ceiling as the sky, and the floor as the ground. There are many ways to include nature inside the classroom for students to be able to learn and to communicate. In the book, “Last Child in the Woods” talks about researches “demonstrating on children how they have the ability to selected where they want to play through natural settings” (Louv, 89).
I agree that play-based learning offers diverse opportunities for children to explore, discover and create, they can also discover new things and communicate with peer during free-play time. Frobel said that “Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child 's soul” (Froebel, 1887). He believed in the importance of play in a child’s learning as creative activity. Play provided the means for a child’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical development which are necessary elements in educating the “whole” children allowing them to use all imaginative powers and physical movements to explore their interests.
Question 2 2.1 Bullying-is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, overtime. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting, problems. 2.1.1 What influences bullying • Peer-groups-the influence of peer-groups can also contribute a lot in bullying.
The writer further explains that the idea of winning sometimes causes severe injuries that may prevail for a lifetime. In these games, a child may crash into one another accidently that creates a fear of getting hurt. Just to protect themselves some children back out of many games and are left behind when it comes to the development of their bodies. The rest of the children who are part of these games are in a constant pressure from their parents and coaches that cause the stress and anxiety. Furthermore, the writer states that this “sport becomes job like”.
Partaking in extreme sports has a plethora of psychological and medical advantages. When kids engage in extreme sports they become more imaginative. This happens because they are free to experiment and invent their own spectacular or special stunts (Tarshis). In Advantages of Adventure Sports, the creator states when kids participate in extreme sports it builds up their confidence the creator shares with us that extreme sports can also relieve stress (Tiyo App). Others believe participating in extreme sports leads to problems like concussions.
Successful home-school-community partnerships involve all stakeholders and give them an equal voice in the decision-making process. The compare and contrast of Head Start and Reggio Emilia approaches from Task 3 & 4. COMPARE Task 3: List the ways families can become involved in school.
It only diminishes when we resist adulthood and confuse our development with the increase in seriousness instead of the increase in dimensions of play’ (p-15, 2008). Dr. Ellis, Founder of the Play Research Lab, considered play as a behavior by an individual that is not motivated by the end product of the behavior; it is assumed to be free. A player needs to step out of the ordinary life and a player is always aware of the border between ‘reality’ and activities in the world of play or the ‘only pretending’ mode of behavior (Zimna, 2010). The most forms of play are recognizable if it has the message ‘this is play’ (Bateson, 1974; Stewart, 1999). Susanna Millar, a former Oxford University Research Lecturer, Director of Psychological studies and author of the book ‘Psychology of Play’ suggests that ‘perhaps play is best used as an adverb, not as a name of a class of activities, nor as distinguished by the accompanying mood, but to describe how and under what conditions an action is performed’ (1968, p. 21).