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Everyday Playfulness

Name: Everyday Playfulness
Brand: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
SKU: 9781785920646
Price: 66.99 AUD
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JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781785920646

A New Approach to Children's Play and Adult Responses to It

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By Stuart Lester, Foreword by Jeremy Lester, Wendy Russell
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Release Date: February 13, 2020
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 380 g
Pages: 256

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Seeing play as an important and vital element of life for children and adults alike, this book addresses the ways in which practitioners take account of and act responsibly with moments of children's play and playfulness.

Working with the Playwork Principles, the book draws on alternative concepts to traditional approaches, including ideas from materialist and posthuman philosophy and human geography, to explore playing as process rather than product. Topics covered include play and wellbeing, play and space, and the micro-politics of playing, critical cartography and adult account-ability and response-ability. It concludes by considering the implications for professional practice and offering ways that professionals can develop practices that maintain and co-create favourable conditions in which children's play can flourish.

Acknowledgements; Foreword: Jeremy Lester; Foreword: Wendy Russell; Preamble; 1. An Introduction; 2. Play: A Different Line Of Enquiry; 3. Some Thoughts On Play And 'Well-Being'; 4. Play And Space; 5. The Micro-Politics Of Playing; 6. Cartography And Account-Ability; 7. Critical Cartography And Response-Ability; 8. And Ending That Is Not An Ending; References

This book is a 'must read' for those working/researching/studying the field of play/child/childhood. Stuart Lester puts into play Deleuzian posthumanist theories and in so doing he intellectually and practically departs from standard accounts of play and (professional) practice. The book exemplifies how change must and can occur so that normative, hierarchical and inequitable systems of organisation that currently circumscribe children's play can both be resisted and reconfigured.

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