Play, Physical Activity and Public Health: The Reframing of Children's Leisure Lives

ISBN-13: 9780367896263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Stephanie A. Alexander; Katherine L. Frohlich; Caroline Fusco

Opis

Based on original qualitative research, and analysis of contemporary media from Canada and elsewhere, this book explores how play has become goal-oriented, a means to health ends, and how the management of pleasure in play and diverse risk discourses limit possibilities for children and families to play freely.

Spis treści

1. The Play Paradox,  2. Playing as Progress,  3. Active Play: When Playing Becomes a Job,  4. Playing is Fun! (…or is it?),  5. Risk, Play and Free Range Kids,  6. Playing Just Makes Me Happy