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Practice Play in Learning to Teach: Performing a Teaching Body

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Play: A Theory of Learning and Change

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Play is integral to pre-service teachers, building relationships and a sense of community. This chapter investigates the role of play in the formation of a teaching career, with attention to creating confidence in a classroom.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Grossman et al. [1].

  2. 2.

    Reid [2].

  3. 3.

    We thank student teachers Kate Hanns and Sheree Brunt for permission to use images from the research.

  4. 4.

    King [3], p. 262.

  5. 5.

    Thorne [4], pp. 4–6.

  6. 6.

    Wasserman [5].

  7. 7.

    Schön [6].

  8. 8.

    Harris [7].

  9. 9.

    Melamed [8], pp. 13–24.

  10. 10.

    Harris and Daley [9].

  11. 11.

    Reid [10], p. 123.

  12. 12.

    Grossman [11].

  13. 13.

    Grossman [11], p. 345.

  14. 14.

    Turney [12].

  15. 15.

    Kemmis and Smith [13]; Green [14].

  16. 16.

    Grossman et al. [1].

  17. 17.

    Grossman and McDonald [15].

  18. 18.

    Reid [2].

  19. 19.

    Boud et al. [16].

  20. 20.

    Roskos and Christie [17].

  21. 21.

    Grossman et al. [1].

  22. 22.

    Grossman et al. [1].

  23. 23.

    Dreyfus and Dreyfus [18].

  24. 24.

    Grossman et al. [1]; Lewis et al. [19].

  25. 25.

    Auhl et al. [20].

  26. 26.

    Watkins [21].

  27. 27.

    Kemmis and Smith [13].

  28. 28.

    Harris [7].

  29. 29.

    Melamed [8], pp. 13–24.

  30. 30.

    Green and Hopwood [22].

  31. 31.

    Harris [7].

  32. 32.

    Mezirow [23].

  33. 33.

    Spinka et al. [24].

  34. 34.

    Spinka et al. [24], p. 14.

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  1. School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia

    Jo-Anne Reid & Denise Wood

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Reid, JA., Wood, D. (2016). Practice Play in Learning to Teach: Performing a Teaching Body. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) Play: A Theory of Learning and Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25549-1_11

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