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. A valuable
addition to an emerging academic field, this book will be of great
interest to researchers and students in the fields of playwork
research, education and youth studies, early childhood students,
and the sociology of education.
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