Creating a school playground in Papua New Guinea: A participatory approach with young children

This chapter draws on a research project entitled "Community Engagement in the redevelopment of a Papua New Guinean School Playground: Participatory Research in Design, Construction, Play and Learning" (Simoncini et al., 2016). The aim of the project was to investigate how a playground redevelopment might impact on children`s play, classroom engagement and behaviour, school attendance and the wider school community. The project team team included both local and visiting academic researchers, an Australian-based playground builder as well as pre-service teachers enrolled at the Pacific Adventist University, Papua New Guinea, tradespeople, local teachers and communities.