Beschreibung:
Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective offers a new and exciting angle from which to view play, drawing on the authors' own experience of conducting research into various aspects of this all-important and pervasive phenomenon.
Foreword Introduction 1. Why the Playworker's Mind-set is Ideal for Research with Children: Child Researchers Investigate Education Rights in Nicaragua 2. Playwork Research as the Art of 'Mirroring' 3. Nomadic Wonderings on Playwork Research: Putting a Dialectical and Ethnographic Methodology to Work Again 4. Researching Children's Play as a Playworker-Ethnographer 5. Playing at Research: Playfulness as a Form of Knowing and Being in Research with Children 6. Process, Participation and Reflection: How Playwork Practice Influenced a Mixed Method Approach to Researching Children's Perception of Choice in their Play 7. Using Action Research to Explore Play Facilitation in School-based School-age Childcare Settings Conclusion