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  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Open University Press; 1 edition (1 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0335222919
  • ISBN-13: 978-0335222919
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.8 x 2.2 cm
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"The editors take readers through a breathtaking landscape of perspectives on the foundations of playwork. ... This book invites you to reflect (see Palmer, p51). But above all, it is one that inspires action."
Children and Society

"Foundations of Playwork is a must read for anyone with an interest in playwork or children's services. It shows the breadth, depth and value of our work with and on behalf of children."
Mike Greenaway, Director of Play Wales

Play impacts on all aspects of human behaviour and development, including the social, physical, cognitive, creative, emotional and spiritual worlds. The profession of playwork endeavours to provide enriched play environments with a view to enabling children achieve their full potential.

This book provides a holistic overview of contemporary play and playwork. Straightforward and accessible, it covers topics such as playwork identity; play environments; the role of the playworker; values and ethics; play and playwork theory; and at the heart of the book, a special chapter located at the cutting-edge of 21st century play theory.

The authors position play and playwork within the broader social context of the management and development of play settings, work within and between different sectors of the children's workforce, and the socio-legal framework of children's rights, and legislation. The book has international interest, considering playwork in the UK, US and Romania. It looks at diverse settings such as prisons, hospitals, parks, adventure playgrounds and play centres, schools, youth settings and nurseries.

Contributions from many of the leading names in playwork offer the most current theory and practice in the field. They present approaches to playwork using a range of techniques such as case studies and critiques, applied and emergent theorizing, story-telling and reflection. This encourages the reader to gain a breadth of perspective and develop their own contribution to the playwork tradition.

Foundations of Playwork is a vital resource for playwork students, practitioners, members of the children's workforce, carers and parents.



About the Author

Fraser Brown is Reader in Playwork at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, and Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Playwork degree. He is Chair of the Aid for Romanian Children charitable trust.

Chris Taylor is a Playwork Trainer and Consultant, Associate Lecturer with the Open University, a Trustee for London Play, and a Management Committee Support Worker at Play Association Tower Hamlets, UK.

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5.0 out of 5 stars play for all, 20 Feb 2009
Foundations of Playwork is for anyone interested in contemporary children's play, and opens a window to the work of playwork professionals. Foundations arrives within a UK policy context offering tremendous scope for exploration, challenge and engagement - both within the playwork sector, between theorists and practitioners, nationally and internationally, and through interaction with the wider children's workforce, parents and carers. Sporting no fewer than 56 bite-sized contributions in 10 Parts, this collection offers many pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle. Piecing them together, we gain a fairly comprehensive snapshot about play and playwork in the UK in 2008. Plus a virtual Who's Who? of UK play experts - heavyweights, ludocentrics, and emerging. The hugely influential role of earlier play theorists, practitioners and related professions such as Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Freud, Piaget, Huizinga, Montessori, the Opies, and Winnicott is well captured, while Sutton-Smith's special feature describes his intellectual journey since 1978 based on a `bias that play was a kind of dialectical experience' (p139). With almost 400 references cited, the book provides also a useful reading list. The editors take readers through a breathtaking landscape of perspectives on the foundations of playwork. Taylor (p47) ends appropriately with a story about Nicholson (1971), famous for his `theory of loose parts'. After sending his Open University students boxes of loose parts for their assignments, `the last box in the course was empty, except for a note that said, "it's up to you now" `. This book invites you to reflect. But above all, it is one that inspires action. Dr Ute Navidi, Chief Executive, London Play and Vice President (Europe), International Play Association: Promoting the Child's Right to Play
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