Re-Imagining Playwork Through a Poststructural Lens - Stories From the Climbing Frame

This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and research.

List of contents

1. Foundations: Swings, roundabouts, and moving parts. 2. Where is Emile?: Seeking the playfulness in childhoods past, present, and yet to come. 3. Beyond the climbing frame: Imagining a poststructural playwork paradigm. 4. In and out the windows: Exploring heterotopia and playwork spaces. 5. Clambering through everyday utopian playwork. 6. Playing with the feminists. 7. Language play and the troublesome fictive. 8. The end of the game

About the author

Linda Jane Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Summary

This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and research.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Jane Shaw, Linda Jane (Oxford Brookes University Shaw
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032028422
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3202842-2
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Advances in Playwork Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Teaching skills & techniques, Play-based learning, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary