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Rural Mothers’ Child Outdoor Play-Related Safety Strategies in British Columbia and Québec, Canada : ‘Sometimes, They Have to Scrape Themselves Up a Bit to Learn Not to Do Something’ Bauer, Michelle E. E.; Brussoni, Mariana; Giles, Audrey R.

Abstract

Rural mothers play important roles in shaping their children’s play-related injury experiences, and their outdoor play-related safety strategies are important to consider in adventure education and outdoor learning research. Currently, there is a dearth of attention to rural mothers’ perspectives on child outdoor play-related safety strategies. To address this, we examined the outdoor play-related safety strategies of rural mothers who had children aged 2 to 7 from British Columbia (n = 10) and Québec (n = 13), Canada, through semi-structured interviews. Using reflexive thematic analysis of the interview data, we identified three themes: (1) rural mothers keep their children aurally and physically close during outdoor play; (2) rural mothers enforce geographic boundaries to outdoor play; and (3) rural mothers teach their children outdoor risk-navigation strategies. Our research can contribute to informing scholarly discussions on gendered parenting identities and child safety.

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Title
Rural Mothers’ Child Outdoor Play-Related Safety Strategies in British Columbia and Québec, Canada : ‘Sometimes, They Have to Scrape Themselves Up a Bit to Learn Not to Do Something’
Creator
Bauer, Michelle E. E.; Brussoni, Mariana; Giles, Audrey R.
Contributor
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Date Issued
2021
Description
Rural mothers play important roles in shaping their children’s play-related injury experiences, and their outdoor play-related safety strategies are important to consider in adventure education and outdoor learning research. Currently, there is a dearth of attention to rural mothers’ perspectives on child outdoor play-related safety strategies. To address this, we examined the outdoor play-related safety strategies of rural mothers who had children aged 2 to 7 from British Columbia (n = 10) and Québec (n = 13), Canada, through semi-structured interviews. Using reflexive thematic analysis of the interview data, we identified three themes: (1) rural mothers keep their children aurally and physically close during outdoor play; (2) rural mothers enforce geographic boundaries to outdoor play; and (3) rural mothers teach their children outdoor risk-navigation strategies. Our research can contribute to informing scholarly discussions on gendered parenting identities and child safety.
Subject
Children and youth (0-19); Outdoor/risky play
Genre
Article; Preprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2022-08-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0416567
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82249
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Pediatrics, Department of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of; Non UBC
Citation
Michelle E. E. Bauer, Mariana Brussoni & Audrey R. Giles (2021) Rural mothers’ perspectives on keeping their children safe during outdoor play: ‘it’s hard to raise a child in a small community’, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.
Publisher DOI
10.1080/14729679.2021.1902827
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher; Postdoctoral
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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