Outdoor Provision in the Early Years by Jan White

Outdoor Provision in the Early Years by Jan White

Outdoor education offers children special contexts for play and exploration, real experiences, and contact with the natural world and the community. To help ensure young children thrive and develop in your care, this book provides essential information on how to make learning outdoors a rich and valuable part of their daily life. Written by a team of experts in the field, this book focuses on the core values of effective outdoor provision, and is packed with ideas to try out in practice. Topics covered include: - the role of play in learning outdoors - meaningful experiences for children outdoors - the role of the adult outdoors - creating a dynamic and flexible outdoor environment - dealing with challenge, risk and safety - including every child in outdoor learning There are case studies of successful strategies in action, covering the Birth to 5 age range. Outdoor provision needs to be thoughtfully planned, well organised and appropriately supported by adults, and this book will help practitioners and students to lead good practice with confidence, so that they respond to the needs and interests of young children.

′If you are looking to enrich outdoor play experiences for young children, this is an inspirational text that could be written just for you′
-Early Years Educator

′There is much here to inspire the practitioner who knows that outdoor provision is important but isn′t quite sure how to implement it in their setting..They will find plenty of new ideas to help them develop and extend their practice to provide even more interesting and stimulating experiences for children′
-Early Years Update

Jan White is an early childhood consultant. She played a key role in developing the Shared Vision and Values for Outdoor Play for the early years sector, and she now works nationally to advocate and support high quality outdoor provision for young children.

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ISBN 13	9781412923095
ISBN 10	1412923093
Title	Outdoor Provision in the Early Years
Author	Jan White
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2011-03-18
Number of pages	136
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