Making Sense of Play straightforwardly describes how self-chosen,
engaging and satisfying play is best for children. It explores how
adults can best support children's free play with an approach that
is holistic, inclusive and practical and offers clear tools to
highlight better ways of relating to and providing for playing
children.The book extends two key concepts developed by the author,
the Integral Play Framework and the Play Cycle, showing how
practitioners can implement these ideas on a day-to-day basis. The
author makes clear how the Integral Play Framework works, how it
helps makes sense of other models and how it can be used to help
plan provision for playing children physically, socially,
cognitively and culturally. Everyday practice with playing children
is explored in line with introductory and extended understandings
of the Play Cycle or 'play process'. Accessibly written with a rich
range of examples showing the concepts in practice, these models
are further used to explore creativity, the ways in which children
play, how provision might be improved and how the approaches can be
used to research practice.With its distinctive blend of theory and
practice together with reflective questions, this book is essential
reading for all playwork students and practitioners and helps put
these innovative ideas into practice with playing children."Perry
Else's book, Making Sense of Play, is just what we might expect
from one of the UK's leading playwork authors. Drawing extensively
on Else's work with a number of theorists, it is thought-provoking
in its content and challenging in the breadth of its scope. Those
of us who value diagrams and tables as a mechanism for clarifying
complex concepts will be rewarded by the format of the chapters. I
recommend this book to anyone with an analytical preference, and an
interest in the way societies cater for the needs of children at
play." Fraser Brown, Professor of Playwork, Leeds Beckett
University, UK"Perry has the special ability to write a rigorous
academic book applying helpful theoretical perspectives to play
without ever damaging the precious importance of uninterrupted,
spontaneous child-led PLAY." Sara Knight, Forest School Association
and Anglia Ruskin University, UK"Making Sense of Play is an
accessible and thought-provoking book for all those who are
involved or interested in children's play, whether they are
practitioners, academics, students or tutors. Written in an
engaging and informative manner, it offers opportunities to deepen
understanding about different perspectives on play and how this
knowledge can aid adults in supporting play. Notably the inclusion
of activities and questions for each chapter are invaluable for
consolidating understanding and applying the theory to practice."
Julia Sexton, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Sheffield
Hallam University, UK
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