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Risk and Our Pedagogical Relation to Children
On the Playground and Beyond
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Price: $51.50
Hardcover - 232 pages |
| Release Date: March 1998 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-3593-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3593-9
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Price: $31.95
Paperback - 232 pages |
| Release Date: February 1998 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-3594-6
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3594-6
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Shows that "risk" is a valuable and pedagogical experience for children on the playground (and for the adults that share that experience with them) in preparation for the precarious world which children find beyond the playground.
In this thoughtful book, Stephen Smith shows how parents and educators can become aware of the positive value of risk in children's lives and how they can be challenged to take risks that are worth their while. This text is a "how so" much more than a "how to" book. It shows by evocative example and provocative questions how adults can help children mature with confidence and a strong sense of physical competence.
The analysis shows the place, silence, atmosphere, challenge, encounter, practice and possibility of risk-taking. It consistently and conscientiously draws attention to a careful, solicitous manner of being with children.
"This is an exemplary illustration of phenomenological writing! As the phenomenon of risk is opened up through a wonderful sense of questioning and examples of being with children in places where risk shows itself, we are led to encounter ourselves as educators, parents and curricularists. We are nudged to recall our own childhoods and rethink that tensionality between holding back and letting go in the child's experience of taking risks on playgrounds and in other risky places. I like where this journey through the places, silences and practices of risk takes us pedagogically. The author shows children who show us our pedagogical invitation. A pedagogy of risk is a delightful connection." -- Francine Hultgren, University of Maryland
Stephen J. Smith is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I. Locating a Pedagogy of Risk
1. Introduction
Venturing Onto the Playground
Redefining Risk
The Structure of the Study
Pedagogical Considerations
Part II. An Awareness of Risk
2. The Place of Risk
The Safety of the Playground
The Supervision of Children
The Observation of Children
Risky Situations
3. The Silence of Risk
An Approach of Silence
A Silent Procedure
The Unspoken Ground
A Silent Trust
Part III. A Responsiveness to Risk
4. The Atmosphere of Risk
The Texture of Risk
Modes of Presence
Pedagogical Presence
Playground Atmosphere
5. The Challenge of Risk
The Dare
Encouragement
Ways Out
Limits of Challenge
6. The Encounter with Risk
Apprehension
Becoming Mindful
Sensing Danger
Letting Go
Part IV. The Educational Significance of Risk
7. The Practice of Risk
Tricks
Repetition
Practice
Being in Practice
8. The Possibility of Risk
The Playing Field
Beyond the Playground
Towards a Curriculum
9. Practical Insights
Practical Ways of Acting
Practical Ways of Being
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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33937/33938(PR//)
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