Playground Development in Papua New Guinea: Creating New Play, Learning and Research Environments

Title
Playground Development in Papua New Guinea: Creating New Play, Learning and Research Environments
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Simoncini, Kym
Carr, Victoria
Elliott, Sue
Manson, Elisapesi
Simeon, Lalen
Sawi, Joros
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Colorado
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.7721/chilyoutenvi.26.1.0179
UNE publication id
une:20029
Abstract
The University of Canberra and the Playground Ideas organization in Australia, and the Pacific Adventist University and Koiari Park Adventist Primary School in Papua New Guinea, partnered to create a demonstration playground and research site in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The long-term goal of this collaborative partnership was to promote playgrounds built of locally sourced materials as safe and stimulating play and learning environments for children and also to serve as community hubs. This field report describes the activities involved in developing the demonstration site including the multiple project partnerships, the community-informed playground design and the playground construction process. Our shared experiences indicate there is much potential for future playground development and we strongly advocate school playgrounds as play and learning environments in Papua New Guinea.
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Citation
Children, Youth and Environments, 26(1), p. 179-194
ISSN
1546-2250
Start page
179
End page
194

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