Rethinking Children's Play

Informationen zum Autor Fraser Brown is Professor of Playwork at Leeds Beckett University, UK, where he is Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Playwork. He was Director of the playwork training agency Children First, has held advisory posts with Playboard and the National Playing Fields Association (NPFA) and managed a range of projects for the North West Play Association. Michael Patte is a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar of Playwork and Associate Professor of Education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a past president of The Association for the Study of Play and co-editor of the International Journal of Play . Phil Jones is Professor of Children's Rights and Wellbeing at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He has published a number of books and articles including Exploring Education and Childhood: From Current Certainties to New Visions (with Wyse, Davis and Rogers 2015) and Rethinking Childhood (2009). He has conducted research funded by the Children’s Commissioner for England and by the LankellyChase Foundation. Zusammenfassung Children need to play and the benefits of play are many and varied, but they are too often underestimated. This title offers a re-examination of children's play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Fraser Brown, Fraser Brown, Fraser/ Patte Brown, Dr Michael Patte, Michael Patte, Michael Brown Patte
• Assisted by: Phil Jones (Editor), Phil Jones (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2012
• EAN: 9781441173669
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7366-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New Childhoods; New Childhoods
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Organization & management of education, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Educational administration and organization, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices