Teachers’ opportunities for mentorship are essential to risky outdoor play and learning in schools
Education outdoors considers the schoolyard and nearby natural spaces as an interactive context for daily school learning and is a form of outdoor learning and play. Risky play, as a pedagogical approach within education outdoors, can inspire engagement with learning that enables curricular content to “emerge directly from children’s outdoor play.†This research aimed to identify the “skills, dispositions and knowledge†of educators who facilitate education outdoors and risky play in the school context.