Play And Playwork

Author : Pete King,Shelly Newstead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317222125

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Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective by Pete King,Shelly Newstead Pdf

Play is of critical importance to the well-being of children across the globe, a fact reflected in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet existing literature on the subject is largely confined to discussing play from a developmental, educational or psychological perspective. 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. This innovative work will act as a compass for those looking to undertake research into different aspects of play and child welfare. Each chapter explores how the author has combined established and new research methodologies with their individual playwork approaches to arrive at emergent understandings of playwork research. The overall conclusion discusses directions for future research and develops a new model of playwork research from the four common themes that emerge from the contributions of individual authors: children’s rights, process, critical reflection, and playfulness. Examples from the United Kingdom, Nicaragua, and Sweden give this unique work international relevance. Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective will appeal to researchers and students around the world working in the fields of playwork, childcare, early years, education, psychology and children’s rights. It should also be of interest to practitioners in a wide variety of professional contexts, including childcare and therapy.

Author : Brown, Fraser
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335209446

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Playwork: Theory And Practice by Brown, Fraser Pdf

This book brings together theoretical perspectives and practical advice to improve playwork practice. There are chapters on the role of adventure playgrounds; the challenge of starting a playwork section in a local authority; and the value of networking.

Author : Brown, Fraser,Taylor, Chris
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335222919

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Foundations Of Playwork by Brown, Fraser,Taylor, Chris Pdf

This book provides a holistic overview of contemporary play and playwork.

Author : Fraser Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335244669

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EBOOK: Play and Playwork: 101 Stories of Children Playing by Fraser Brown Pdf

Children like to play. They get all sorts of benefits from playing. They get the most benefit from play when they are in control of what they are doing. Yet there are lots of circumstances today that mean children are not able to control their own play and that's where playwork comes in, where the role of the playworker is to create environments that enable children to take control of their playing. This book aims to explore the similarities, differences and tensions that exist between play and playwork including appropriate definitions and the conflict around the role of the adult. Fraser Brown proposes a play to playwork continuum, where playing can be considered a 'developmental and evolutionary' activity and playwork a 'compensatory' activity. Helpfully structured around the aspects considered by the author as most important for playwork, this book uses 101 fascinating stories of children playing to illuminate a range of play and playwork theories. The rich array of powerful stories - drawn from the casebooks of eminent and experienced playworkers - speak for themselves whilst at the same time triggering theoretical explorations that are interwoven with the stories in each chapter. Mesmerizing, absorbing and original, this is essential reading for playwork students and practitioners, as well as for students and practitioners of early years, childhood, children's health and wellbeing, and children’s social care.

Author : Pete King,Shelly Newstead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429685569

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Further Perspectives on Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective by Pete King,Shelly Newstead Pdf

Building on the success of the first volume of Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective, this book further develops the crucial research of playwork as an emerging and unique discipline. The first volume explored how an understanding of playwork theory and practice can inform research into children’s play. From the seven contributors, four common themes to researching play from a playwork perspective were identified: rights-based; process, critical reflection and playfulness. This second volume aims to explore these four factors from two angles. The first considers how four more playworkers have researched play in four different contexts: prison, gender and toys, in Dutch play provision, and in the area of autism. In the second part of the book, the four pillars of playwork research are explored by academics from other disciplines with an interest in playwork research. This will be of great interest to researchers and upper-level students in the fields of playwork, childcare, early years, education, psychology and children’s rights. It will also appeal to practitioners in a wide variety of professional contexts, including childcare and therapy.

Author : Bob Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134529513

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Evolutionary Playwork and Reflective Analytic Practice by Bob Hughes Pdf

Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children's play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being of the child. The book divides into three main sections. The first examines the fundamentals of evolutionary playwork, from creating the right play environment to issues of safety and participation. Secondly, the book explores the theory underlying playwork. Finally, the book offers new models to help the playworker develop their own professional practice. Throughout the text, the author brings his argument to life with vivid reflections on a lifetime's experience of play and playwork. Evolutionary Playwork and Reflective Analytic Practice is the first book of its kind, and represents essential reading for all playwork students, practitioners and researchers. It also incorporates dedicated material for parents looking to better understand and enhance the development of their children.

Author : Fraser Brown,Bob Hughes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761870616

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Aspects of Playwork by Fraser Brown,Bob Hughes Pdf

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began to be replaced by playwork, a nondirective way of working. Playwork marked a rejection of the adult-focused practice of playleadership. Playworkers relied more on an ambiance that reflected their own childhood freedoms and on the growing body of knowledge regarding the importance of play. This body of new literature suggested that play, unadulterated by societal objectives, was crucial to the successful development of all children; that play was not just good for exercise and social interaction, but was vital to brain growth and the child’s ability to adapt to a fast changing world. Since those early days, playwork has mutated through a variety of guises, and over the years has begun to explore the child’s impact on space, the relationships between child and adult, what playworkers do, the therapeutic aspects of play, and has even taken faltering footsteps into the complexities of the quantum world. Aspects of Playwork reflects this awesome diversity of views and interpretation, moving from the historical to the almost sci-fi and from ghostly traces to the hard realities of being a child and working with children in the 2000s. Most of all, though, Aspects of Playwork is a commentary on the beauty and wonder of what play is and what it is to play.

Author : Pete King,Shelly Newstead
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030724610

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Play Across Childhood by Pete King,Shelly Newstead Pdf

This book explores how play is perceived and practiced through the lens of various different professional and international contexts. Children’s experiences of play will vary according to the different institutions and organisations they are involved in across their lifespan during childhood. The chapters cover play from pre-school to adolescence that includes education, playwork and the new developing area of intergenerational play. This wide variety of contexts and cultures raises questions about universal concepts and notions of ‘play’. The editors and contributors explore how policy, practice and research can identify both differences and commonalities between the way that play is perceived and experienced by children and adults across different types of provision.

Author : Perry Else
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780826448095

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The Value of Play by Perry Else Pdf

An accessible coursebook for those specifically engaged in playwork and those on Childhood Studies programmes.

Author : Fraser Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335247080

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Playwork: Theory and Practice by Fraser Brown Pdf

"[An] excellent book... With its breadth of discourse, it held my attention throughout. ... This book is informative, but also challenges views on the play experience and the playwork profession. It will be of interest to all those that work and play with young children. The place of playwork and playworkers... is described with passion: readers cannot help but be totally absorbed by this book." Early Years, Vol 24, No 1, March 2004 Children learn and develop through their play. In today's world the opportunities for that to happen are increasingly restricted. The profession of playwork seeks to reintroduce such opportunities, and so enable children to achieve their full potential. This book brings together many leading names in the playwork field, to produce a text that has something for everyone. The in-depth exploration of a range of theoretical perspectives will appeal to both playwork students and practising playworkers. Experienced practitioners offer sound practical advice about ways of improving playwork practice. There are chapters on the role of adventure playgrounds (past, present and future); the challenge of starting a playwork section in a local authority; and the value of networking. Contributors explore the essence of play; the historical roots of playwork; and the role of play cues in human and animal behaviour. There is an exploration of the astounding impact of a therapeutic playwork project on the development of a group of abandoned children in Romania. The final chapter reinforces the need for playworkers to be reflective practitioners in all aspects of their work.

Author : Jacky Kilvington,Ali Wood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780826497642

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Reflective Playwork by Jacky Kilvington,Ali Wood Pdf

Reflective Playwork provides an introduction to playwork values, principles and practice for all who work with children. It recognizes that play is a need for all, and seeks to encourage the provision of time and space for all children to freely enjoy its benefits. In a world where we are ever seeking to protect our children and to encourage their educational progress, it is often overlooked that the need for play is as important as the need for food and sleep. Play deprivation can result in a child having less energy for education, a lower ability to use creative and imaginative ways of problem solving, a poorer self image, being less able to cope with the stresses and strains of life and sometimes being more likely to look for ‘kicks' in anti-social ways. This book encourages a greater understanding of play from the child's perspective, and suggests ways in which adults can support and enhance play. It covers: •Playwork principles and practice •Play theory •The child •Playwork values and practice •Playwork and society •Playwork education, training and continuing professional development •Quality and management of playwork It is written for those who are instinctively, or otherwise, looking to promote and celebrate the need for play in all of their work with children, and who see their role as supportive rather than supervisory. Further, it is for those who recognize that the rewards of working with children come as a privilege. Reflective Playwork is for the playworker and for all others who work with children - such as childcare practitioners, teaching assistants, health workers, social workers, teachers and those in management - who are looking to understand and adopt, at appropriate times, the values and principles in their own settings.

Author : Dawn Rigby
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529786033

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Making Play Work in Early Years Settings by Dawn Rigby Pdf

Making a play-based curriculum work in early years settings. Early Years practitioners have been advocating for play to be at the heart of early years for many years. Now is the time to make this a reality. Using in the moment planning, child initiated play and other strategies, this book supports early years practitioners to enable the children in their setting to choose what they do and how they want to learn. Dawn Rigby shares her passion for a play-based curriculum, her own setting′s journey, what worked and the challenges faced along the way. This practical book: shares examples of good practice; gives advice on how to make play the central focus of early years practice; explores why a play-based curriculum matters; includes practical support on developmentally appropriate practice.

Author : Pete King,Gordon Sturrock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429836848

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The Play Cycle by Pete King,Gordon Sturrock Pdf

Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle, this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice, training and education. The Play Cycle: Theory, Research and Application is the first book of its kind to explain the theoretical concept of the Play Cycle, supported by recent research, and how it can be used as an observational method for anyone who works with children in a play context. The book investigates the understandings of the Play Cycle within the playwork field over the last 20 years, and its future application. It addresses each aspect of the Play Cycle (metalude, play cue, play return, play frame, loop and flow and annihilation) and combines the theoretical aspect of the Play Cycle with empirical research evidence. The book also provides an observational tool for people to observe and record play cycles. This book will appeal to playworkers, teachers, play therapists and professionals working in other contexts with children, such as hospitals and prisons. It will support practitioners and students in learning about play and provide lecturers and trainers with a new innovative teaching and training aide.

Author : Peter K. Smith,Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108135504

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The Cambridge Handbook of Play by Peter K. Smith,Jaipaul L. Roopnarine Pdf

Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan. The Cambridge Handbook of Play covers the evolution of play in animals, especially mammals; the development of play from infancy through childhood and into adulthood; historical and anthropological perspectives on play; theories and methodologies; the role of play in children's learning; play in special groups such as children with impairments, or suffering political violence; and the practical applications of playwork and play therapy. Written by an international team of scholars from diverse disciplines such as psychology, education, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essential reference presents the current state of the field in play research.

Author : Bob Hughes,Sandra Melville,PlayEducation (Organisation)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0953566528

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A Playworker's Taxonomy of Play Types by Bob Hughes,Sandra Melville,PlayEducation (Organisation) Pdf