1st Edition
Further Perspectives on Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective Process, Playfulness, Rights-based and Critical Reflection
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword: Professor Emeritus Anthony Pellegrini
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Pete King and Shelly Newstead
Chapter 1: Playwork in prisons: an exploratory case study
Yvonne Quaintrell
Chapter 2: Using Playwork Perspectives and Ethnographic Research To Move Towards an Understanding of Autistic Play Culture
Becky Willans
Chapter 3: Techniques and methodologies for undertaking research from a playwork perspective in the subject area of toys and gender
Sarah Goldsmith
Chapter 4: Developing a playwork perspective from Dutch research experience
Martin van Rooijen
Chapter 5: The Power of Stories: Using Narrative Methods in Playwork Research
Hazel Wright and Paulette Luff
Chapter 6: Imagining Playwork using Sociological Perspectives from Mills, Foucault and Gordon
Linda J. Shaw
Chapter 7: Dancing with the devil or a means to fulfil potential? Enumeration and playwork.
John H. McKendrick
Conclusion
Pete King and Shelly Newstead
Biography
Pete King is currently programme director for the MA Childhood Studies and MA Developmental and Therapeutic Play programmes at Swansea University. Pete’s research, including joint research with Shelly, has been published both nationally and internationally in journals and published books. Pete’s recent publications include the co-authored ‘The Play Cycle: Theory, Research and Application’ with Gordon Sturrock.
Shelly Newstead is the Managing Director of Common Threads, a social enterprise which develops playwork theory and practice internationally – www.commonthreads.org.uk. Shelly has worked in the playwork field for more than thirty years as a practitioner, trainer, author, editor, publisher and researcher, currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She is the Managing Editor of International Journal of Playwork Practice and the Series Editor for the Routledge Advances in Playwork Research series. Shelly is also the President of the International Council for Children’s Play (ICCP).
