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Outdoor Play Advocacy

Playing outdoors is more than just fun. Playing awakens creativity in a significant and constant way and stimulates different types of learning. Even if it looks like a simple game, there are skills developed with each stimulus. Playing outdoors is more than connecting with nature, it's experiencing everything the world has to offer, including the risks it can bring. According to Dietze and Kashin (2019), “the outdoor environment offers children real-life experiences that include different sounds, smells, ideas, thoughts and ways of knowing that cannot be replicated indoors and especially not through their children's screen experiences” (p. 6). Nowadays, children and adolescents are recognized as holders of fundamental rights and guarantees that must be ensured and exercised. However, this was not always the case, due to a long historical journey driven by movements and national and international legal frameworks, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child officially app
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