From adding richness and variety to learning, to redesigning a playground, this highly
accessible text will provide early years practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to foster …

2021 NQF AFL Update Literature Review Page 1 1 2021 NATIONAL QUALITY FRAMEWORK
– APPROVED LEARNING FRAMEWORKS UPDATE – LITERATURE REVIEW National Quality …

This paper reports the findings of a narrative review of international research literature about
babies' and toddlers' engagement with the outdoor environment whilst attending ECEC …

Background Child care centers are important for children's behaviors. Aims To examine the
cross-sectional associations between child care environmental characteristics and physical …

Infant development is tied to the physical environment. Indeed, all infant behavior—
movement, exploration, object play, social interaction—occurs in the context of a physical …

This study employed a range of observation methods engaging with the concept of
affordances to create a qualitative snapshot of children's movement behaviour in two …

A normative demand placed on early childhood centres by political actors and education
theorists is that they should promote participation by children. Numerous publications have …

Although children's physical environments play an important role in their development, there
have been few empirical studies on the interior design of early childhood centres. This is …

This manuscript presents the findings of a study that explored how teachers' perceptions of
natural play learning environments were transformed through targeted professional learning …

Playing outdoors is beneficial for children's development and learning. Investigating how
children's play varies in different types of outdoor environments can offer valuable insight to …