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Researching Virtual Play Experiences

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This chapter locates this work in relation to wider theoretical perspectives, framing it as a post-structuralist study that draws on diverse and intersecting theories around children’s play, New Literacy Studies, multimodality, new literacies and place and space. I demonstrate how employing multiple disciplinary approaches helps to provide an expansive perspective on the fieldsite and the lived experience of participants. Next I define post-structuralism and draw on several contextually relevant post-structural studies, arguing that this paradigm offers a way of understanding the world that is appropriate for this study. Finally, I outline the research that has informed this project, including classroom-based studies that employ an ethnographic approach, followed by a systematic examination of research around virtual world play that explores play by adults and children.

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Bailey, C. (2021). Situating the Study. In: Researching Virtual Play Experiences. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78694-6_2

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