- 161 pages
- English
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Postdevelopmental Approaches to Play
About this book
This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around play and explores play in the broadest sense. It deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around play where the focus is on what play enables children's bodies and brains to do and become. This book includes contributions from academics and practitioners based in Australia, Canada, Finland, South Africa, the USA and the UK and explores play in the broadest sense, making space for the myriad forms that play takes for both children and adults connected to children in childhood contexts. By broadening the definition and being open to the ways that play emerges through research and pedagogy this book disrupts and extends existing ideas (and practices) in early childhood. The contributors offer alternative ways of thinking about play in childhood, including those emerging from indigenous, posthumanist, feminist new materialist, social semiotic, socio-cultural, aesthetic and multimodal approaches to childhood.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Foreword
- Chapter 1: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Play: An Introduction
- Chapter 2: Documenting Play through Social Media: Troubling Progress Narratives and Opening Whole Worlds of Stuff
- Chapter 3: Movement Methodologies for Postdevelopmental Pedagogies: Or Why Movement Play Is Important
- Chapter 4: Speculative Play: Exploring the (De)Legitimization and Binary Boundaries of Play
- Chapter 5: Where Do the First Nations Children Play in Australia? It’s Time for Yarns
- Chapter 6: Stretching and Sketching Playful Writing with Companion Creatures: Childing Professional Development
- Chapter 7: Free Play, Everyday! Reflections on Children’s Play at The Lion and The Mouse – An Outdoor Play Organization in Mon real
- Chapter 8: Refusing Perpetual Mediation: Playing in the Undercommons
- Index