Perspectives on Play

Name: Perspectives on Play
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780815366942
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Perspectives on Play presents innovative, multi-disciplinary views on play across various settings such as the classroom, playground, home, and community. This third edition, extensively updated, links theory to practice with case studies, observations, and practical examples. It covers recent policy changes, globalisation, technology's impact on play, mental health connections, and includes vibrant illustrations and reflection prompts.
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Ideal for students in childhood studies, playwork, and early years or primary teaching training, as well as early years, primary, and play practitioners seeking practical guidance and theoretical insight into children's play.

This text offers innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the subject of play in a range of environments: the classroom, playground, home, and local community. Extensively revised, this third edition explores the theory and clearly demonstrates how to take the theory from the academic classroom and apply it to practice in a child's setting.

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This text offers innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the subject of play in a range of environments: the classroom, playground, home, and local community. Chapters include observation notes, case studies, and comprehensive illustrations of ideas in action, as well as encouragement for the reader to stop and reflect on their own practice with questions for consideration.

Extensively revised and with new contributions, this third edition explores the theory and clearly demonstrates how to take the theory from the academic classroom and apply it to practice in a child's setting. New features include:

An up-to-date exploration of the latest policy developments and research, including Ofsted's 2015 Early Years Report and the 2017 EYFS Statutory Framework
An exploration of globalisation and technology, and critical analysis of children’s leisure time, screen interaction, and virtual experiences
International perspectives on play and the connections between play and mental health
Brand new practical examples woven throughout, accompanied by additional full-colour photos

Perspectives on Play is an invaluable resource for any student studying within childhood studies, playwork programmes, or training to teach at early years or primary level. It is also ideal for early years, primary, and play practitioners.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815366942

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 December 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 5 Tables, color; 12 Line drawings, color; 40 Halftones, color

Contributors:

Edited by Avril Brock
Edited by Pam Jarvis
Edited by Yinka Olusoga

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 880g

Pages: 394

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Avril Brock was a principal lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, in the School of Education and Childhood, working with PhD, EdD, postgraduate and undergraduate students. She has worked in higher education since 1989, after being a deputy head, primary and early years teacher in West Yorkshire, often working with linguistically diverse children. Avril has recently retired and is busy playing with her grandchildren, as well as developing her play through golf, painting and photography!

Pam Jarvis is Reader in Childhood, Youth and Education at the Institute of Childhood and Education, Leeds Trinity University, UK. She is a Chartered Psychologist and historian, who additionally has Qualified Teacher Status. Her research interests centre around developmentally informed policy and practice for children, young people and families, a topic upon which she regularly blogs in the TES and the Huffington Post. She teaches across various childhood, youth and family-related undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Leeds Trinity University.

Yinka Olusoga is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Yinka’s research interests include: student teachers’ experiences of enhancing provision to support child-initiated play; the history of personal and social education; and the role of discourse in the social construction of childhood and of schooling.