Impacts of outdoors on children's behaviour and attention: The science behind outdoor play series
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In this series on the science behind outdoor play Angelica talks to Gemma Goldenberg who is researching how indoor and outdoor environments affect children's stress, attention and self-regulated behaviour.

In this episode, part 4 of the series, Gemma shares her results around children's behaviour and attention during and after outdoor and indoor sessions. Gemma and Angelica discuss the findings in more depth, beyond the general trends, which raises implications for wider educational research as well as pedagogy in classrooms around 'controlling' children's behaviour, looking at averages in data and listening to children's preferences when it comes to their own individual learning. 

Episode breakdown:

01:10 - What we already know about impacts of the outdoors on attention 03:30 - Individual differences and preferences 04:45 - Controlling measures in the research study 06:00 - How do we measure behaviour and attention? 14:32 - Implications for 'good listening' 17:20 - Did you find what you expected to find in the research? 18:30 - What use is identifying the average and looking at general data/trends? 21:00 - Implications for educational research 23:00 - Preference impacts learning: Listening to children's preferences matters! 26:40 - What do teachers need to control and when can they release control?

Listen to the full 4-part series and read Gemma's articles on:

The Voice of Early Childhood website: www.thevoiceofearlychildhood.com