What happens when you just let children play.
March 22, 2014 Comments Off on What happens when you just let children play.Read moreHe didn’t start asking “why” until he became part of a playground and risk study by Auckland University researcher Grant Schofield and his research manager, Julia McPhee, three years ago. The researchers gave 16 schools a grant of $15,000 to build their vision of a playground that would reintroduce risk and help encourage physical activity in children.
“It hadn’t occurred to me that anyone would actually abandon all school rules,” Prof. Schofield said.