Overview
Explores children's experiences of play across the lifespan
Poses questions about universal concepts and notions of play
Examines how policy, practice and research can identify commonalities and differences in the ways play is experienced and perceived by children and adults
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pete King is Senior Lecturer at Swansea University, UK. He has published widely on play and playwork, both nationally and internationally, including Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective and The Play Cycle – Theory, Research and Application. He is currently researching the effects of the COVID-19 in the United Kingdom on playwork.
Shelly Newstead is Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. She has worked in the playwork field for over 30 years as a practitioner, trainer, author, editor, publisher and researcher. She is the Managing Editor of International Journal of Playwork Practice and the President of the International Council for Children’s Play (ICCP).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Play Across Childhood
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives on Diverse Contexts of Play
Editors: Pete King, Shelly Newstead
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72461-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72460-3Published: 02 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72463-4Published: 03 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72461-0Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Alternative Education, Childhood, Adolescence and Society