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Re-imagining Playwork through a Poststructural Lens: Stories from the Climbing Frame

Re-imagining Playwork through a Poststructural Lens: Stories from the Climbing Frame

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Series: Advances in Playwork Research

General Education

ISBN10: 1032028424
ISBN13: 9781032028422
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and research.

Drawing on theoretical concepts used by sociologists and philosophers, such as the sociological imagination (Mills); hauntings and the fictive (Derrida) and technologies of power and the self (Foucault), the text considers how these devices may be methodologically productive for playwork research. It reframes research into children and childhood as a process in which research and practice are connected but diverse skills. The book raises questions around power and voice, and highlights the complexity of research which involves human participants and their roles as researcher and/or researched. Chapters relate concepts from post-structural, feminist research and frame them within the context of playwork practice through the use of vignettes constructed from stories told by playwork practitioners and the children with whom they work.

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