• An Intervention to Increase Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Education Centers (PROmoting Early Childhood Outside): Protocol for a Pilot Wait-list Control Cluster Randomized Trial 

      Ramsden, Rachel; Han, Christina; Mount, Dawn; Loebach, Janet; Cox, Adina; Herrington, Susan; Bundy, Anita; Fyfe-Johnson, Amber; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Stone, Michelle; Tremblay, Mark S.; Brussoni, Mariana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Participation in outdoor play has been extensively documented as beneficial for the health, well-being, and development of children. Canadian early childhood education centers (ECECs) are important settings ...
    • Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors—Network (PLaTO‑Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology 

      Lee, Eun-Young; de Lannoy, Louise; Li, Lucy; de Barros, Maria I. A.; Bentsen, Peter; Brussoni, Mariana; Fiskum, Tove Anita; Guerrero, Michelle; Hallås, Bjørg Oddrun; Ho, Susanna; Jordan, Catherine; Leather, Mark; Mannion, Greg; Moore, Sarah A.; Hansen Sandseter, Ellen Beate; Spencer, Nancy L. I.; Waite, Susan; Wang, Po-Yu; Tremblay, Mark S.; Winje, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06-15)
      Background: A recent dialogue in the feld of play, learn, and teach outdoors (referred to as “PLaTO” hereafter) demonstrated the need for developing harmonized and consensus-based terminology, taxonomy, and ontology for ...
    • Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors—Network (PLaTO‑Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology 

      Lee, Eun-Young; de Lannoy, Louise; Li, Lucy; de Barros, Maria I. A.; Bentsen, Peter; Brussoni, Mariana; Fiskum, Tove Anita; Guerrero, Michelle; Hallås, Bjørg Oddrun; Ho, Susanna; Jordan, Catherine; Leather, Mark; Mannion, Greg; Moore, Sarah A.; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Spencer, Nancy L. I.; Waite, Susan; Wang, Po-Yu; Tremblay, Mark S.; Winje, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: A recent dialogue in the feld of play, learn, and teach outdoors (referred to as “PLaTO” hereafter) demonstrated the need for developing harmonized and consensus-based terminology, taxonomy, and ontology for ...
    • The Role of Play and Objects in Children’s Deep-LevelLearning in Early Childhood Education 

      Sando, Ole Johan; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Brussoni, Mariana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)
      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, ...
    • Virtual Risk Management—Exploring Effects of Childhood Risk Experiences through Innovative Methods (ViRMa) for Primary School Children in Norway: Study Protocol for the ViRMa Project 

      Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Sando, Ole Johan; Lorås, Håvard Wuttudal; Kleppe, Rasmus; Storli, Lise; Brussoni, Mariana; Bundy, Anita; Schwebel, David C; Ball, David; Haga, Monika; Little, Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Research indicates that risky play benefits children’s risk assessment and risk management skills and offers several positive health effects such as resilience, social skills, physical activity, well-being, and involvement. ...