Leken sker på miljöns premisser : Ett kvalitativt arbete om fritidshemmets fysiska inomhusmiljö och dess påverkan på elevernas lek

The purpose of the study is to investigate how play is affected by the physical indoor environment in leisure-time centers with a focus on promotional and inhibitory factors. The survey is based on qualitative interviews with five educators who shared their perceptions and experiences within the subject. The study's results show a large agreement on enabling and limiting factors where variation, flexibility and students' participation in the environmental design are crucial for the stimulus of play. When these factors are missing, play is considered to be inhibited because the environment is not perceived to meet what is needed to be a rewarding play environment for the students. The result is related to environmental psychological theory and analyzed using an affordance perspective to understand how the students' different experiences of the environment affect the environmental offering for play.