Avoiding a dystopian future for children's play

被引:19
作者
Ball, David J. [1 ]
Brussoni, Mariana [2 ]
Gill, Tim R. [3 ]
Harbottle, Harry [4 ]
Spiegal, Bernard [5 ]
机构
[1] Middlesex Univ, Sch Sci & Technol, Ctr Decis Anal & Risk Management, London NW5 4BT, England
[2] Univ British Columbia, BC Injury Res & Prevent Unit, Dept Pediat, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[3] Rethinkingchildhood, London, England
[4] CATE Consultancy, Portpatrick, England
[5] PLAYLINK, London, England
关键词
Playground safety standards; outdoor play; risk benefit assessment; child injury prevention; play equipment; risk management;
D O I
10.1080/21594937.2019.1582844
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Children's play is increasingly controlled, costly and standardised. Risk aversion has resulted in attempts to eliminate all danger despite the limited health burden of play-related injuries and missing cost-benefit evidence. The current role and implementation of playground safety standards is a key inhibitor of stimulating play provision. Playground safety standards assume that play is about engineered structures. Standard creating bodies and playground inspectors tend to be missing key voices and knowledge. The proper domain of playground standards is engineering-related issues, such as structural integrity. However, they make judgments about children's play behaviours, which are shaped by the children using the space and local circumstances: they are not standardised and should lay outside the scope of standards. We recommend that the value-based judgments currently included in standards and inspections should rest with play providers using Risk Benefit Assessment frameworks. We provide recommendations for play providers, standard setters, inspectors and public health.
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