Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction. 1. Playwork in prisons: an exploratory case study. 2. Using Playwork Perspectives and Ethnographic Research To Move Towards an Understanding of Autistic Play Culture. 3. Techniques and methodologies for undertaking research from a playwork perspective in the subject area of toys and gender. 4. Developing a playwork perspective from Dutch research experience. 5. The Power of Stories: Using Narrative Methods in Playwork Research. 6. Imagining Playwork using Sociological Perspectives from Mills, Foucault and Gordon. 7. Dancing with the devil or a means to fulfil potential? Enumeration and playwork. Conclusion.
