For children, playgrounds are important environments. However, children's perspectives are
often not acknowledged in playground provision, design, and evaluation. This scoping …

Background Understanding determinants of children's outdoor play is important for
improving low physical activity levels, and schools are a key setting for both. Safety concerns …

Social participation in schoolyards is crucial for children's development. Yet, schoolyard
environments contain features that can hinder children's social participation. In this paper …

Children's physical activity is low and play outdoors has been declining, coinciding with a
greater preoccupation with risk in many countries. This study examines how policy actors …

This study investigated (i) the social and political factors driving risk averse decision making
for children's physically active play in schools, and (ii) the policies shaping these decisions …

Purpose It is aimed to assess whether school uniforms are associated with population-level
gender inequalities in physical activity, and whether associations differ by school level …

The structuring of time and space in schools influences when children's bodies should be
active and when they should be still. The growing interest in physical activity interventions in …

Children's risky play opportunities depend on supervising adults' attitudes and the play
environment. The possibilities to engage in risk-taking outdoor play for children have …

Objective Recess contributes meaningfully to physical activity (PA), but recess time has
declined. The study's purpose was to report PA by age, gender, and playground feature to …

Recess is an important and unique component of the school day, and yet there is a relative
paucity of research on its impact on young children. Moreover, recesses are often perceived …