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‘It’s fun in the legs’: children’s dwelling in garden trampolines
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posted on 2020-05-03, 00:00 authored by J Arvidsen, H Johannessen, Jenny VeitchJenny Veitch, S AndkjærPhysical activity is critical for children’s current and future health status. Understanding how children’s everyday outdoor environments encourage movement could help progress the health-environment debate. In response to this, and adopting a theoretical focus upon dwelling, skills and the haptic engagement, this qualitative case study explores 25 Danish 10–11-year-old children’s everyday use of garden trampolines. Three principal methods of data generation were employed in the fieldwork: photo-elicited interviews, group interviews and participant observation at children’s important outdoor places. Findings suggest that garden trampolines are important everyday outdoor places for children that–among other things–can spark a vigorous physical movement in abundantly meaningful and joyful ways. Further, findings indicate that trampolines are places of inexhaustible movement opportunities, which operate through haptic sensations, feelings of skilfulness and attunement, expansions of the range of motions available to the body, and interactions between children. Implications for future research and design are highlighted.
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Children's geographiesVolume
18Issue
3Pagination
312 - 324Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1473-3285eISSN
1473-3277Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2019, Informa UK LimitedUsage metrics
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