Toddlers' engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden

This article explores toddler - place relationships outdoors during early childhood education in Sweden. Informed by Tim Ingold's theorization of movement, we explore toddlers' embodied engagements with the preschool playground and how the human-non-human environments become entangled. The results show that, just as in the wider world, the processes enabling and limiting toddlers' engagements in the playground are continuously in motion. Toddler-place relationships are continuously created through a mutual dependence between human and non-human entities. In this sense, toddlers' engagements with playgrounds are not separate from the place through which they engage, but change place.