3rd Edition

Perspectives on Play Learning for Life

Edited By Avril Brock, Pam Jarvis, Yinka Olusoga Copyright 2019
    390 Pages
    by Routledge

    394 Pages
    by Routledge

    This text offers innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the subject of play in a range of environments: the classroom, playground, home, and local community. Chapters include observation notes, case studies and comprehensive illustrations of ideas in action, as well as encouragement for the reader to stop and reflect on their own practice with questions for consideration.

    Extensively revised and with new contributions, this third edition explores the theory and clearly demonstrates how to take the theory from the academic classroom and apply it to practice in a child's setting. New features include:

    • an up-to-date exploration of the latest policy developments and research, including Ofsted's 2015 Early Years Report and the 2017 EYFS Statutory Framework
    • an exploration of globalisation and technology, and critical analysis of children’s leisure time, screen interaction and virtual experiences
    • international perspectives on play and the connections between play and mental health
    • brand new practical examples woven throughout, accompanied by additional full-colour photos

    Perspectives on Play is an invaluable resource for any student studying within childhood studies, playwork programmes or training to teach at early years or primary level. It is also ideal for early years, primary and play practitioners.

    Foreword by David Whitebread

    Introduction 

    Section 1: The Value of Play? Psychological, Educational and Playwork Perspectives 

    Chapter 1. Three Perspectives on Play

    Pam Jarvis, Avril Brock, Fraser Brown 

    Chapter 2. ‘We Don’t Play Like That Here’: Social, Cultural and Gender Perspectives on Play

    Yinka Olusoga 

    Section 2: Children at Play: A Journey through the Years (0–11) 

    Chapter 3. Curriculum and Pedagogy of Play: A Multitude of Perspectives?

    Avril Brock 

    Chapter 4. Born to Play: Babies and Toddlers Playing

    Avril Brock, Pam Jarvis 

    Chapter 5. Playing in the Early Years: At Liberty to Play – Not Only Legal but also Statutory!

    Avril Brock 

    Chapter 6. Play, Children and Primary Schools

    Yinka Olusoga, Bev Keen 

    Section 3: Supporting Children’s Play 

    Chapter 7. Building ‘Social Hardiness’ for Life: Rough and Tumble Play in the Early Years of Primary School

    Pam Jarvis 

    Chapter 8. Play for Children with Special Educational Needs

    Verna Kilburn, Kären Mills 

    Chapter 9. Playwork

    Fraser Brown 

    Chapter 10. Opening Play: Research into Play and Dramatherapy

    Phil Jones, Sue Elmer 

    Section 4: Concluding Perspectives 

    Chapter 11. A Place to Play: Online and Offline in the 21st Century

    Pam Jarvis 

    Glossary 

    Index

    Biography

    Avril Brock was a principal lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, in the School of Education and Childhood, working with PhD, EdD, postgraduate and undergraduate students. She has worked in higher education since 1989, after being a deputy head, primary and early years teacher in West Yorkshire, often working with linguistically diverse children. Avril has recently retired and is busy playing with her grandchildren, as well as developing her play through golf, painting and photography!

    Pam Jarvis is Reader in Childhood, Youth and Education at the Institute of Childhood and Education, Leeds Trinity University, UK. She is a Chartered Psychologist and historian, who additionally has Qualified Teacher Status. Her research interests centre around developmentally informed policy and practice for children, young people and families, a topic upon which she regularly blogs in the TES and the Huffington Post. She teaches across various childhood, youth and family-related undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Leeds Trinity University.

    Yinka Olusoga is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Yinka’s research interests include: student teachers’ experiences of enhancing provision to support child-initiated play; the history of personal and social education; and the role of discourse in the social construction of childhood and of schooling.