This unique collection of 12 research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and USA puts forward a range of perspectives on children's play and adults' relationships with it. Drawing on a diverse range of research methodologies, the studies consider adults' memories of play; the co-production of spaces where children can play (in adventure playgrounds, out of school clubs, children's zoos, children's museums and public space); therapeutic approaches to playwork; playwork and wellbeing; supporting the play of severely disabled children and young people; play and contemporary art practice; and children's use of technology in a playground. Offering a fresh look beyond the dominant singular voice of developmental psychology, this book is essential reading for anyone studying or working with children at play.
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Table of contents
- PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH IN CHILDRENāS PLAY
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Perspectives on play research: the practice-theory-research entanglement
- Part One. Then and now: historical perspectives
- 2. Nostalgia and play
- 3. Debris and delight: childrenās play during the second world war
- 4. Adventure playgrounds and me: bringing the past into the auto-ethnographic present
- Part Two. Here and there, this and that: spatial and creative perspectives
- 5. Dancing with strangers: observing play in an English urban square
- 6. Researching childrenās play and contemporary art
- 7. Play and value: determining the values of a nature play setting
- 8. Your space or mine? Play in out of school clubs
- 9. Co-creating spaces on an adventure playground: using particip
- 10. Children, mobile phones and outdoor play
- Part Three. Playfulness and wellbeing
- 11. Understandings of play for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD)
- 12. Therapeutic playwork: exploring playworkersā perceptions of therapeutic playwork training and its usefulness in supporting children in afterschool clubs
- 13. Play, playwork and wellbeing
- Closing thoughts
- 14. What do we want research in childrenās play to do?
- Appendix. The Playwork Principles
- Index
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