1st Edition
Playwork Practice at the Margins Research Perspectives from Diverse Settings
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: At the Margins (Jennifer Cartmel)
Chapter 2: Employing Playwork Principles at Zoos (Rick Worch)
Chapter 3: Playwork in the Rainforest (Alison L. Black & Gail Crimmins)
Chapter 4: Playwork Play Works (Pauline Chan, Ada Wong, Serena Fung, Noel Kwok & Lam Pui)
Chapter 5: Paradoxes of Playwork Practice in an English Primary School (Craig Johnston & Finn Cullen)
Chapter 6: Loose Parts in an Outside-School-Hours Care Setting (Angus Gorrie & Hyacinth Udah)
Chapter 7: Intergenerational Play (Eifiona Thomas Lane, Rebecca Jones, Rhiannon Little, & Huw Meredydd Owen)
Chapter 8: Playwork in Domestic and Family Violence Refuges (Cindy Dawson, & Hayley Rideout)
Chapter 9: Play for Sick Children (Chika Matsudaira)
Chapter 10: We All Need to Play: Supporting Play for Children with Disabilities in Fiji. A Practitioner Narrative (Emma McIntoch)
Chapter 11: Final thoughts (Jennifer Cartmel)
Biography
Jennifer Cartmel focuses on children’s social and emotional learning and the workforce in children's services. Her research interests include the role of critical reflection in the development of professional competencies, the interaction between educators and children in group settings, intergenerational practice and the many facets of outside-school-hours care services.
Rick Worch specialises in early childhood science education at Bowling Green State University, USA. His research focuses on the socioecology and play of wild monkeys and children’s engagement, play and learning in natural and educational settings. He is a past-president of The Association for the Study of Play.
