Practice-Based Research in Children's Play

ISBN-13: 9781447330035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Wendy Russell; Hilary Smith; Stuart Lester

Opis

There has been a growing awareness in recent years of the importance of play in children's learning and development--but that awareness has not been accompanied by sufficient scholarly attention, outside of conceptual studies and how-to textbooks. This collection fills that gap by bringing together scholars from a range of fields and methodological approaches to look at play from a practice-based perspective. Moving beyond the dominant voice of developmental psychology, the book offers a number of new ways of approaching children's play and the roles of adults in supporting it; as a result, it will be valuable to anyone working with or studying children at play.

Spis treści

Foreword ~ Berry Mayall; Perspectives on play research: the practice-theory-research entanglement ~ Wendy Russell, Stuart Lester and Hilary Smith; Part One: Then and now: historical perspectives; Nostalgia and play ~ Paula Harris; Debris and delight: children’s play during the second world war ~ Becky Willans; Adventure playgrounds and me: bringing the past into the auto-ethnographic present ~ Tom Williams; Part Two: Here and there, this and that: spatial and creative perspectives; Dancing with strangers: observing play in an English public square ~ Hattie Coppard; Researching children’s play and contemporary art ~ Megan Dickerson; Play and value: determining the values of a nature play setting ~ Linda Kinney; Your space or mine? Play in out of school clubs ~ Rebekah Jackson; Co-creating spaces on an adventure playground: using participatory action research as an approach to continuing professional development ~ John Fitzpatrick and Bridget Handscomb; Children, mobile phones and outdoor play ~ Chris Martin; Part Three: Playfulness and wellbeing; Understandings of play for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) ~ Stephen Smith; Therapeutic playwork: exploring playworkers’ perceptions of therapeutic playwork training and its usefulness in supporting children in afterschool clubs ~ Claire Hawkes; Play, playwork and wellbeing ~ Nic Matthews, Hilary Smith, Denise Hill and Lindsey Kilgour; Part Four: Closing thoughts; What do we want research in children’s research to do? ~ Wendy Russell, Stuart Lester and Hilary Smith