Overview
- Introduces early childhood educators to ways in which multidisciplinary conceptions of play can inform theory and practice
- Showcases multidisciplinary research collaborations between Australian academics, writers and practitioners
- Analyses the value of play and playful engagement from the perspectives of philosophers, sociologists and psychologists as well as researchers from fields such as theatre studies, architecture, cultural studies, theology and the creative arts
- Informed by the voices of participants in play, the book offers practical suggestions and tools for reinvigorating play in learning contexts
- Argues for a renewed appreciation of play and its importance for contemporary daily life
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 18)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Value of Play
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Play Beyond Early Childhood
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Sociocultural Context, Technology and Consumerism
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Keywords
- Adult play
- Architectural space
- Childhood play
- Consumerist play
- Cultural development
- Cultural-historical activity theory
- Donald Winnicott
- Drama pedagogy
- Early childhood education
- Gaming culture
- Inclusive Education
- Indigenous play
- Multi-disciplinary framework
- Play and the sacred
- Play-based learning
- Professional practice
- Student engagement
- Teacher engagement
- Understandings of play
- Virtue and play
About this book
The book examines how ideas of play evolve as children increasingly interact with popular culture and technology, and how developing notions of play have changed our work spaces, teaching practices, curricula, and learning environments, as well as our understanding of relationships between children and adults. This multidisciplinary volume on the subject of play combines the work of some of the world’s leading researchers in the field of early childhood education with contributions from distinguished and emerging scholars in areas as diverse as education, theatre studies, architecture, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, theology and the creative arts. Reconsidering the common focus on play in early education, to investigate its broader impact, this collection offers a refreshing and valuable addition to studies on play, reconceptualizing it for the 21st century.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Deborah Pike (PhD) is the Discipline Head and a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus. Her research interests include cultural studies, postcolonial and modernist literary studies, and wellbeing and play studies. She is author of The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald (University of Missouri Press, 2016); and “The Russian Way of Happiness: Choice, Love and Community” in On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century (UWA Press, 2016), a book that she also co-edited.
Cynthia à Beckett (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus and an experienced early childhood educator and advisor. Her research interests explore connections between the sociology of childhood, young children and families and the topic of play. Her publications include “Imaginative education explored through the concept of Playing in the In-between” in Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice, a Many-sided Vision (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). She is a member of the Board of the prestigious SDN Children Services and chairs the Board’s Research Ethics subcommittee.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Play from Birth and Beyond
Editors: Sandra Lynch, Deborah Pike, Cynthia à Beckett
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2643-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2641-6Published: 09 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9675-4Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2643-0Published: 27 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Learning & Instruction, Educational Psychology