Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: King, Pete; Newstead, Shelly

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317222132
• Artikelnr.: 48799963

Autorenporträt

Pete King is a senior lecturer in Childhood Studies at Swansea University, and his current research has been published in both national and international journals, including Journal of Playwork Practice and the American Journal of Play. Pete currently lectures on Children's Rights, Developmental and Therapeutic Play, Perspectives on Play and Research Methods. Shelly Newstead is a doctoral candidate at UCL Institute of Education, London, and has worked in the playwork field for over 25 years as a practitioner, trainer, author, editor and publisher. Shelly is the founding editor of Journal of Playwork Practice and the Vice-President of ICCP (International Council for Children's Play).

Inhaltsangabe

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