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Bringing together authors from a range of academic disciplines and
research backgrounds - united as standard-bearers for the child's
right to play - and set against a backdrop evoking play's critical
essence, this book documents the rise and fall of an explosive
period of political interest in play in the UK. Has the withdrawal
of so much state funding damaged the playwork profession forever?
Has the battle for recognition of the significance of play in child
development been lost? Why is children's happiness always so low on
the agendas of our politicians? The invaluable contributions in
this book identify the lessons learned, and the opportunities that
may be available to those determined to maintain the struggle for a
greater recognition of the importance of children's play in an era
defined by the oppressive politics of austerity. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the International
Journal of Play.
Bringing together authors from a range of academic disciplines and
research backgrounds - united as standard-bearers for the child's
right to play - and set against a backdrop evoking play's critical
essence, this book documents the rise and fall of an explosive
period of political interest in play in the UK. Has the withdrawal
of so much state funding damaged the playwork profession forever?
Has the battle for recognition of the significance of play in child
development been lost? Why is children's happiness always so low on
the agendas of our politicians? The invaluable contributions in
this book identify the lessons learned, and the opportunities that
may be available to those determined to maintain the struggle for a
greater recognition of the importance of children's play in an era
defined by the oppressive politics of austerity. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the International
Journal of Play.
The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous
artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for
increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of
these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to
instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules
and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began
to be replaced by playwork, a nondirective way of working. Playwork
marked a rejection of the adult-focused practice of playleadership.
Playworkers relied more on an ambiance that reflected their own
childhood freedoms and on the growing body of knowledge regarding
the importance of play. This body of new literature suggested that
play, unadulterated by societal objectives, was crucial to the
successful development of all children; that play was not just good
for exercise and social interaction, but was vital to brain growth
and the child's ability to adapt to a fast changing world. Since
those early days, playwork has mutated through a variety of guises,
and over the years has begun to explore the child's impact on
space, the relationships between child and adult, what playworkers
do, the therapeutic aspects of play, and has even taken faltering
footsteps into the complexities of the quantum world. Aspects of
Playwork reflects this awesome diversity of views and
interpretation, moving from the historical to the almost sci-fi and
from ghostly traces to the hard realities of being a child and
working with children in the 2000s. Most of all, though, Aspects of
Playwork is a commentary on the beauty and wonder of what play is
and what it is to play.
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