1st Edition
Re-imagining Playwork through a Poststructural Lens Stories from the Climbing Frame
By Linda Jane Shaw
Copyright 2023
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Foundations: Swings, roundabouts, and moving parts
Chapter 2: Where is Emile?: Seeking the playfulness in childhoods past, present, and yet to come
Chapter 3: Beyond the climbing frame: Imagining a poststructural playwork paradigm
Chapter 4: In and out the windows: Exploring heterotopia and playwork spaces
Chapter 5: Clambering through everyday utopian playwork
Chapter 6: Playing with the feminists
Chapter 7: Language play and the troublesome fictive
Chapter 8: The end of the game
References
Index
Biography
Linda Jane Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
