E B H Sandseter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 55269 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E B H Sandseter |
| PRENOMES | E B H |
| SOBRENOME | Sandseter |
| ASSINATURA | SANDSETER E B H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen Maud University College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3315-6955 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Environmental pediatric physiotherapy and risky play
Environmental physiotherapy is epistemologically anchored in the critical recognition that physiotherapeutic practice is fundamentally embedded within a planetary ecological framework, demanding a holistic, systemically integrated approach to professional practice. This perspective article highlights and underscores the value of risky play for child health and the commonalities with environmental pediatric physiotherapy. The article starts with a…
Risk willingness in play
Understanding children’s willingness to take risks is crucial for sound educational strategies and play environments. This study investigates children’s risk willingness using a virtual reality (VR) playground balancing scenario and examines its associations with sensation-seeking personality trait, age, gender, and the likelihood of failing the VR scenario. The sample included 344 children aged 7–10 years. Results showed that risk willingness – …
The Structure of Challenging Parenting Behavior in Norwegian Parents to Children in Middle Childhood (7–10 years)
Challenging parenting behavior (CPB), which emphasizes playful encouragement to push the child’s limits and controlled exposure to risk, represents a novel approach to parenting. This study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Challenging Parenting Behavior Questionnaire 7-12 (CPBQ7-12) in a Norwegian sample, examining relations to parents’ sex and age. Participants were recruited from four elementary schools in Norway through a co…
Toddlers' actualization of affordances during free exploration in a varied natural environment
Looking beneath the surface
This study assumes that surfaces in outdoor environments in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions exert an important influence on children's play diversity.Gibson (1979) claims that surfaces are important because they are where most action occurs; some surfaces may lead to a diversity of play behaviours, while others afford a narrower range of actions.This study was conducted as part of a three-year mixed-methods project.The samp…
Children's dynamic risk management - a comprehensive approach to children's risk willingness, risk assessment, and risk handling
Risky Play
This open access book uses childhood research and ethical theory to highlight how children depend upon risky play for mental and physical development.
The Role of Play and Objects in Children’s Deep-Level Learning in Early Childhood Education
This research investigates the significance of the physical environment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions as a facilitator of deep-level learning. Building upon Laevers’ concept of deep-level learning, this study explores the interplay between objects in ECEC settings, children’s play, and their deep-level learning. The primary objective is to examine the potential mediating role of play in the relationship between objects…
Risky play in children's emotion regulation, social functioning, and physical health
The focus of this theoretical paper is to explore three biopsychosocial levels of children’s risky play: (1) mental health and emotion regulation, (2) social functioning and challenging norms, and (3) physical health and development. As such, in this paper, we expand Sandseter’s and Kennair’s focus in their original article in 2011 on the evolved function of risky play as an anti-phobic mechanism, and consider other types of risk than physical ri…
A GoPro Look on How Children Aged 17–25 Months Assess and Manage Risk during Free Exploration in a Varied Natural Environment
Research indicates that risky play has positive effects on children’s development, learning and health, and ability to assess and manage risk, but there is a lack of knowledge on how toddlers engage in risky play. This study aims to investigate how toddlers assess and manage risk in free exploration in a varied natural environment and was conducted within an explorative qualitative approach. Observations were collected through head-mounted GoPro …
Children’s Perception and Utilization of Ecec Physical Environments
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions play an important role in many young children’s lives. Child-oriented research about the role of the physical ECEC environment in children’s play is scarce. The present study aims to develop knowledge about what children consider crucial elements in the physical ECEC environment. Seventy-one children (3–6 years old) were interviewed to gain insight into their perspectives on the physical ECEC…
Risk and Safety Management in Physical Education
Bodily movement is a central component in students’ educational experiences in school-based physical education (PE) programs. PE unavoidably involves physical risk. In some respects, the risk of play, sports and adventure is portrayed as necessary and healthy for children’s development. However, concerns about students’ safety and teachers’ liability might generate risk aversion among teachers. This article explores teachers’ perceptions of risk …
Associations between Children’s Risky Play and Ecec Outdoor Play Spaces and Materials
Children spend a large amount of time each day in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions, and the ECEC play environments are important for children's play opportunities. This includes children's opportunities to engage in risky play. This study examined the relationship between the outdoor play environment and the occurrence of children's risky play in ECEC institutions. Children ( n = 80) were observed in two-minute sequences dur…
Risky Play and Children’s Well-Being, Involvement and Physical Activity
Children's activities and experiences in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions are essential for children's present and future lives. Playing is a vital activity in childhood, and playing is found to be positively related to a variety of outcomes among children. In this study, we investigated how risky play – a fundamentally voluntary form of play – related to children's well-being, involvement and physical activity. Results from…
A playful introduction
At first glance, the idea of outdoor play and learning is both appealing and simple. Indeed, there are many popular articles that both advocate for more outdoor experiences for children and admonis
Children's play, well-being and involvement
In this article, we report on a Norwegian study exploring the relationship between children's play, well-being, and involvement, and identify how children play in indoor and outdoor environments at their early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution. In this quantitative study, structured video observations (960 two-minutes sequences) of 80 free play sessions (indoors and outdoors) at eight ECEC institutions were analysed to measure the t…
Outdoor play and learning
Opportunities for children to engage in high quality outdoor experiences are diminishing (Waller et al., 2017). Many researchers argue that outdoor play experiences, particularly those that offer t
Year-Old Children’s Experience of Subjective Well-Being and Social Relations in Ecec Institutions
Children’s Experience of Activities and Participation and their Subjective Well-Being in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Institutions
Children's Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective
This theoretical article views children's risky play from an evolutionary perspective, addressing specific evolutionary functions and especially the anti-phobic effects of risky play. According to the non-associative theory, a contemporary approach to the etiology of anxiety, children develop fears of certain stimuli (e.g., heights and strangers) that protect them from situations they are not mature enough to cope with, naturally through infancy.…
It Tickles in My Tummy!’
‘It tickles in my tummy’ is one of the most frequent answers when children are asked to describe what they experience when engaging in risky play. Why do children take risks in spite of the fact that this can be a harmful and even fatal activity? This article aims to explore this issue. Semi-structured interviews of 23 pre-school children aged four and five years were analyzed on the basis of the concepts of paratelic and telic states in Reversal…
Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool
Categorising risky play—how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play?
There is a growing debate on the balance between making sure our children are safe versus letting the children play in physically and emotionally stimulating and challenging environments. The focus is now on children's right to do risky play. There are no studies categorising risky play. The present study has aimed to do this. Qualitative observations of 38 children and semi‐structured interviews with 8 children and 7 employees from two Norwegian…
Risky play in children's emotion regulation, social functioning, and physical health
The focus of this theoretical paper is to explore three biopsychosocial levels of children’s risky play: (1) mental health and emotion regulation, (2) social functioning and challenging norms, and (3) physical health and development. As such, in this paper, we expand Sandseter’s and Kennair’s focus in their original article in 2011 on the evolved function of risky play as an anti-phobic mechanism, and consider other types of risk than physical ri…
Children's play, well-being and involvement
In this article, we report on a Norwegian study exploring the relationship between children's play, well-being, and involvement, and identify how children play in indoor and outdoor environments at their early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution. In this quantitative study, structured video observations (960 two-minutes sequences) of 80 free play sessions (indoors and outdoors) at eight ECEC institutions were analysed to measure the t…
It Tickles in My Tummy!’
‘It tickles in my tummy’ is one of the most frequent answers when children are asked to describe what they experience when engaging in risky play. Why do children take risks in spite of the fact that this can be a harmful and even fatal activity? This article aims to explore this issue. Semi-structured interviews of 23 pre-school children aged four and five years were analyzed on the basis of the concepts of paratelic and telic states in Reversal…
Children’s Experience of Activities and Participation and their Subjective Well-Being in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Institutions
Risky Play and Children’s Well-Being, Involvement and Physical Activity
Children's activities and experiences in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions are essential for children's present and future lives. Playing is a vital activity in childhood, and playing is found to be positively related to a variety of outcomes among children. In this study, we investigated how risky play – a fundamentally voluntary form of play – related to children's well-being, involvement and physical activity. Results from…
Looking beneath the surface
This study assumes that surfaces in outdoor environments in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions exert an important influence on children's play diversity.Gibson (1979) claims that surfaces are important because they are where most action occurs; some surfaces may lead to a diversity of play behaviours, while others afford a narrower range of actions.This study was conducted as part of a three-year mixed-methods project.The samp…
Categorising risky play—how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play?
There is a growing debate on the balance between making sure our children are safe versus letting the children play in physically and emotionally stimulating and challenging environments. The focus is now on children's right to do risky play. There are no studies categorising risky play. The present study has aimed to do this. Qualitative observations of 38 children and semi‐structured interviews with 8 children and 7 employees from two Norwegian…
Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool
It Tickles in My Tummy!’
‘It tickles in my tummy’ is one of the most frequent answers when children are asked to describe what they experience when engaging in risky play. Why do children take risks in spite of the fact that this can be a harmful and even fatal activity? This article aims to explore this issue. Semi-structured interviews of 23 pre-school children aged four and five years were analyzed on the basis of the concepts of paratelic and telic states in Reversal…
Children's Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective
This theoretical article views children's risky play from an evolutionary perspective, addressing specific evolutionary functions and especially the anti-phobic effects of risky play. According to the non-associative theory, a contemporary approach to the etiology of anxiety, children develop fears of certain stimuli (e.g., heights and strangers) that protect them from situations they are not mature enough to cope with, naturally through infancy.…
Children’s Experience of Activities and Participation and their Subjective Well-Being in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Institutions
Year-Old Children’s Experience of Subjective Well-Being and Social Relations in Ecec Institutions
Outdoor play and learning
Opportunities for children to engage in high quality outdoor experiences are diminishing (Waller et al., 2017). Many researchers argue that outdoor play experiences, particularly those that offer t
A playful introduction
At first glance, the idea of outdoor play and learning is both appealing and simple. Indeed, there are many popular articles that both advocate for more outdoor experiences for children and admonis
Children's play, well-being and involvement
In this article, we report on a Norwegian study exploring the relationship between children's play, well-being, and involvement, and identify how children play in indoor and outdoor environments at their early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution. In this quantitative study, structured video observations (960 two-minutes sequences) of 80 free play sessions (indoors and outdoors) at eight ECEC institutions were analysed to measure the t…
Risk and Safety Management in Physical Education
Bodily movement is a central component in students’ educational experiences in school-based physical education (PE) programs. PE unavoidably involves physical risk. In some respects, the risk of play, sports and adventure is portrayed as necessary and healthy for children’s development. However, concerns about students’ safety and teachers’ liability might generate risk aversion among teachers. This article explores teachers’ perceptions of risk …
Associations between Children’s Risky Play and Ecec Outdoor Play Spaces and Materials
Children spend a large amount of time each day in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions, and the ECEC play environments are important for children's play opportunities. This includes children's opportunities to engage in risky play. This study examined the relationship between the outdoor play environment and the occurrence of children's risky play in ECEC institutions. Children ( n = 80) were observed in two-minute sequences dur…
Risky Play and Children’s Well-Being, Involvement and Physical Activity
Children's activities and experiences in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions are essential for children's present and future lives. Playing is a vital activity in childhood, and playing is found to be positively related to a variety of outcomes among children. In this study, we investigated how risky play – a fundamentally voluntary form of play – related to children's well-being, involvement and physical activity. Results from…
A GoPro Look on How Children Aged 17–25 Months Assess and Manage Risk during Free Exploration in a Varied Natural Environment
Research indicates that risky play has positive effects on children’s development, learning and health, and ability to assess and manage risk, but there is a lack of knowledge on how toddlers engage in risky play. This study aims to investigate how toddlers assess and manage risk in free exploration in a varied natural environment and was conducted within an explorative qualitative approach. Observations were collected through head-mounted GoPro …
Children’s Perception and Utilization of Ecec Physical Environments
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions play an important role in many young children’s lives. Child-oriented research about the role of the physical ECEC environment in children’s play is scarce. The present study aims to develop knowledge about what children consider crucial elements in the physical ECEC environment. Seventy-one children (3–6 years old) were interviewed to gain insight into their perspectives on the physical ECEC…
Risky Play
This open access book uses childhood research and ethical theory to highlight how children depend upon risky play for mental and physical development.
The Role of Play and Objects in Children’s Deep-Level Learning in Early Childhood Education
This research investigates the significance of the physical environment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions as a facilitator of deep-level learning. Building upon Laevers’ concept of deep-level learning, this study explores the interplay between objects in ECEC settings, children’s play, and their deep-level learning. The primary objective is to examine the potential mediating role of play in the relationship between objects…
Risky play in children's emotion regulation, social functioning, and physical health
The focus of this theoretical paper is to explore three biopsychosocial levels of children’s risky play: (1) mental health and emotion regulation, (2) social functioning and challenging norms, and (3) physical health and development. As such, in this paper, we expand Sandseter’s and Kennair’s focus in their original article in 2011 on the evolved function of risky play as an anti-phobic mechanism, and consider other types of risk than physical ri…
Looking beneath the surface
This study assumes that surfaces in outdoor environments in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions exert an important influence on children's play diversity.Gibson (1979) claims that surfaces are important because they are where most action occurs; some surfaces may lead to a diversity of play behaviours, while others afford a narrower range of actions.This study was conducted as part of a three-year mixed-methods project.The samp…
Children's dynamic risk management - a comprehensive approach to children's risk willingness, risk assessment, and risk handling
Environmental pediatric physiotherapy and risky play
Environmental physiotherapy is epistemologically anchored in the critical recognition that physiotherapeutic practice is fundamentally embedded within a planetary ecological framework, demanding a holistic, systemically integrated approach to professional practice. This perspective article highlights and underscores the value of risky play for child health and the commonalities with environmental pediatric physiotherapy. The article starts with a…
Risk willingness in play
Understanding children’s willingness to take risks is crucial for sound educational strategies and play environments. This study investigates children’s risk willingness using a virtual reality (VR) playground balancing scenario and examines its associations with sensation-seeking personality trait, age, gender, and the likelihood of failing the VR scenario. The sample included 344 children aged 7–10 years. Results showed that risk willingness – …
The Structure of Challenging Parenting Behavior in Norwegian Parents to Children in Middle Childhood (7–10 years)
Challenging parenting behavior (CPB), which emphasizes playful encouragement to push the child’s limits and controlled exposure to risk, represents a novel approach to parenting. This study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Challenging Parenting Behavior Questionnaire 7-12 (CPBQ7-12) in a Norwegian sample, examining relations to parents’ sex and age. Participants were recruited from four elementary schools in Norway through a co…
Toddlers' actualization of affordances during free exploration in a varied natural environment
Psychology (22 obras) · Developmental psychology (17 obras) · Early childhood education (11 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Early childhood (8 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Norwegian (6 obras) · Outdoor and Experiential Education (6 obras)