TY - JOUR
T1 - Where to Next for School Playground Interventions to Encourage Active Play? An Exploration of Structured and Unstructured School Playground Strategies
AU - Hyndman, Brendon
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - An emerging public health priority is to enhance children’s
opportunities for active play. Children spend a large proportion of
weekdays in schools, making schools an influential and suitable setting
to promote children’s active play. Rather than continually increasing
the burdens placed upon busy teaching staff, the use of school
playground interventions have emerged as a critical strategy within
schools to facilitate and develop children’s active play via an informal
curriculum. This scholarly article provides a research-based commentary
on a range of school playground interventions to encourage both
structured and unstructured active play opportunities. Additionally,
future research directions for school playground research to encourage
children’s active play will be discussed. Teachers, educational leaders,
designers, researchers and play professionals can consider the findings
from this article for future school playground intervention and
planning to facilitate children’s active play within school playgrounds.
AB - An emerging public health priority is to enhance children’s
opportunities for active play. Children spend a large proportion of
weekdays in schools, making schools an influential and suitable setting
to promote children’s active play. Rather than continually increasing
the burdens placed upon busy teaching staff, the use of school
playground interventions have emerged as a critical strategy within
schools to facilitate and develop children’s active play via an informal
curriculum. This scholarly article provides a research-based commentary
on a range of school playground interventions to encourage both
structured and unstructured active play opportunities. Additionally,
future research directions for school playground research to encourage
children’s active play will be discussed. Teachers, educational leaders,
designers, researchers and play professionals can consider the findings
from this article for future school playground intervention and
planning to facilitate children’s active play within school playgrounds.
U2 - 10.1080/19411243.2015.1014956
DO - 10.1080/19411243.2015.1014956
M3 - Article
SN - 1941-1243
VL - 8
SP - 56
EP - 67
JO - Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, and Early Intervention
JF - Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, and Early Intervention
IS - 1
ER -