Overview
- Activates the ambivalent meanings of play
- Acknowledges the intellectual legacy of play theory
- Presents interdisciplinary engagement with play
- Explores how play transforms through digitization
- Incorporates teacher education, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and history
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Playing with Bodies (of Knowledge)
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Playing with Pedagogies
Keywords
- changing practice in teacher education
- child's play
- connection between play and decolonization
- cross-cultural playing field
- digital story-telling software
- early childhood physical activity
- exploratory and constructive play
- international initiatives in school leadership
- play between academic staff, teacher candidates and children
- play in early childhood education
- pre-service teachers and Aboriginal students
- the impact of playing with pedagogy
- the value of outdoor play
- learning and instruction
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
A Springer author, Tara has published 16 books and over 180 refereed articles and book chapters through her career. She writes for the Times Higher Education, Times Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement. She is best known for her books Digital Hemlock (2002), the University of Google (2007), Thinking Pop (2011) and Digital Dieting (2013). Her new Springer books are City Imaging (2013), Unique Urbanity (2014) and Enabling University (2015). For further information about Tara, please refer to www.brabazon.net. A full CV is also included with this proposal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Play: A Theory of Learning and Change
Editors: Tara Brabazon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25549-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25547-7Published: 18 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79807-3Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25549-1Published: 12 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 235
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction, Sociology of Education, Child and School Psychology