Anita Bundy, ScD, OT/L, FAOTA, FOTARA is a professor and head of the occupational therapy department at Colorado State University. She has conducted decades of experiments and research in Risky Play. Listen as Dr. Bundy shares both the benefits of risk-taking in play and the developmental costs of being risk-averse.
Resources Mentioned In this episode:
Anita Bundy’s bio page, publications, and awards at Colorado State University: https://www.chhs.colostate.edu/bio-page/anita-bundy-1189/
Sydney Playground Project: https://www.sydneyplaygroundproject.com/
Revised Knox Preschool Play Scale: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_604
Test of Playfulness (Bundy): https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_299
Neumann, Eva: The Elements of Play https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_604
Gregory Bateson’s concept of “metacommunication”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0732118X9190042K
David Ball: Playgrounds – risks, benefits and choices: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/4990/1/crr02426.pd
Tim Gill: The Benefits of Children’s Engagement with Nature: A Systematic Literature Review: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.24.2.0010
Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vxKzmO8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
The Play Outside UBC Lab, led by Dr. Mariana Brussoni: https://playoutsideubc.ca/