Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367178628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str.

Pete King; Shelly Newstead

Opis

Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective offers a new and exciting angle from which to view play, drawing on the authors’ own experience of conducting research into various aspects of this all-important and pervasive phenomenon.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  1. Why the Playworker’s Mind-set is Ideal for Research with Children: Child Researchers Investigate Education Rights in Nicaragua  2.  Playwork Research as the Art of ‘Mirroring’  3. Nomadic Wonderings on Playwork Research: Putting a Dialectical and Ethnographic Methodology to Work Again  4. Researching Children’s Play as a Playworker-Ethnographer  5. Playing at Research: Playfulness as a Form of Knowing and Being in Research with Children  6. Process, Participation and Reflection: How Playwork Practice Influenced a Mixed Method Approach to Researching Children’s Perception of Choice in their Play  7. Using Action Research to Explore Play Facilitation in School-based School-age Childcare Settings  Conclusion