{"title":"Miss Mary Mac all dressed in black: tongue twisters, jump-rope rhymes and other children’s lore from New England","authors":"Elizabeth Tucker","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2098579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2098579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"44 1","pages":"348 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88275166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniela Aldoney, Soledad Coo, A. Mira, J. Valdivia
{"title":"Mothers, fathers and educators’ beliefs about play in Chilean preschool children","authors":"Daniela Aldoney, Soledad Coo, A. Mira, J. Valdivia","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2069346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2069346","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Robust data exist on the relation between play and children’s positive development. Yet, the time children devote to play has decreased in the last decades. Guided by the premise that adults’ beliefs about play are related to the way in which adults promote it, we asked 380 mothers, 89 fathers, and 83 early childhood educators in Santiago, Chile, about their beliefs about play and its relation to academic learning. Results showed similarities and differences in the value given to free and structured play and electronic activities by the three groups of participants. Participants differed in the academic value of play by socioeconomic status but agreed on the value of play in children’s academic skills. Fathers valued electronic activities more than mothers and early childhood educators. Data from this study may inform interventions and curriculum to foster play as an essential tool for child development in Chile.","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"108 1","pages":"164 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84197215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revenge of the seas","authors":"Ashli Venokur","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2069355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2069355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"13 3","pages":"222 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72552963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tinkering in the time of COVID: lessons from educators’ efforts to facilitate playful tinkering through online learning","authors":"L. Martin, Ciara Thomas Murphy","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2069350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2069350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on children’s educational and play experiences. In this paper, we analyze and report on interviews with a sample of 14 educators who continued to facilitate playful tinkering experiences during online learning near the beginning of school facility closures related to COVID-19. After a review of relevant literatures on playful learning and making and tinkering, we discuss three themes that emerged in the data: (1) rethinking materials, where educators either moved to simplified activities or to those that could flexibly embrace the diverse materials found in children’s homes; (2) adapting in-the-moment facilitation, where educators sought new means to engage students and facilitate persistence and continued exploration; and (3) searching for emotional connections, where educators prioritized emotional connections with students, despite the challenges of technology-mediated interactions. We close with implications for the future of making and tinkering centered learning opportunities post-pandemic.","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"38 1","pages":"127 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84776613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How does play in the outdoors afford opportunities for schema development in young children?","authors":"Pavla Boulton, Amanda Thomas","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2069348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2069348","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores children's use of schemas to construct their knowledge and understanding within the outdoor learning environment. It considers how a knowledge of schemas can facilitate practitioners to inform early years pedagogy. Further, it examines how the affordance of resources in the outdoors can nurture children's schemas. It charts different children's learning journeys over two terms and how ‘coming to know’ about their schemas, facilitated practitioners' different perceptions, shaping classroom pedagogy both indoors and outdoors. The research explores how loose parts and their affordance can nurture schematic development. Findings suggest that the outdoors affords greater engagement of the senses, freedom of space, enabling children to use the ‘loose parts’ in ways that are unique to them. Movements are greater, creativity is deeper, and schemas are overtly witnessed during outdoor play, where the self-governance of the play itself enables schematic development.","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"12 1","pages":"184 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90322367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playful introduction 11.2","authors":"Anna R. Beresin","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2069352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2069352","url":null,"abstract":"We begin with an ovation, a tribute to DavidWhitebread’s research career as collected by Marisol Basilio, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, and Dave Neale. Professor Whitebread was the inaugural director of PEDAL, The Play in Education, Development, and Learning Centre at the University of Cambridge. The editors hope we honor Professor Whitebread’s memory here. Pat Rumbaugh, co-founder of Let’s Play America, writes of her own playful memories and the thrill of riding bikes in our regular Playful Memories & Reflections column. If we ride forward, we move to Lee Martin and Ciara Thomas Murphy’s study of tinkering through distance learning during COVID, and then to Jane Cooper, Mong-lin Yu, Ted Brown and Linda MacKay on school based filial therapy. These two subjects are very much on many peoples’minds: How do we help children globally heal from the isolation of COVID directly through therapeutic programs? How do we help indirectly through advocacy for tinkering and free play? Or is it that therapeutic programs are the indirect forms of assistance and free play the direct one? Riding backwards, turning to developmental time we have two articles on play and early childhood. Daniela Aldoney, Soledad Coo, Andrea Mira, and Josefina Valdivia write of parents’ perceptions of Chilean preschools. Pavla Boulton and Amanda Thomas examine outdoor play and schema development among young children in the United Kingdom. The International Journal of Play is committed to studying play as microcosm and macrocosm and we turn from descriptive study to policy. Edward B. Olsen, Emi Tsuda, James D. Wyant, Zach Gerken, Ian Capp, Gabriella Smith and Nestor Conforti combine efforts to bring us ‘Senate bill 847: The implementation of New Jersey’s recess law in public elementary schools.’ In our field, to do play research is a political act on behalf of all children. Ashli Venokur offers an additional pirate themed play memory. Perhaps memory itself is an act of piracy, and play is part of our human effort to create interesting memories. With all that is going on in the world, Ashli Venokur reminds us we are all in the same boat. Elizabeth Tucker brings us a book worth rereading, Marjatta Kalliala’s Play Culture in a Changing World. New books editor Sylwyn Guilbaud shares Rick Worch’s review of Reflective Playwork: For All Who Work with Children by Jacky Kilvington and Ali Wood, and Tim Gill reviews Rae Bridgman’s and Lauren Sheedy’s Urban Playground: How Child-friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities. It doesn’t get more hopeful than that.","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"1 1","pages":"121 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73545780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflective playwork: for all who work with children","authors":"Rick A. Worch","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2051928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2051928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"107 1","pages":"227 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77690682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban playground: how child-friendly planning and design can save cities","authors":"Lauren Sheedy, Rae St. Clair Bridgman","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2051927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2051927","url":null,"abstract":"Newstead and colleagues (2015), however, contemporary playwork literature tends to focus more on what play is and the importance of play rather than on ‘the nature and purpose of playwork and the importance of playwork on its own terms’. This book, too, devotes far more pages to the importance of play and theories of play from other disciplines than to the nature of playwork practice derived from playwork theory and empirical evidence originated by actual playworkers. Chapter 8, fortunately, offers potential areas for research into the practice of playwork in order to strengthen the professional knowledge base within the playwork field. Reflective Playwork is a wonderful resource for anyone who works with children in play-based settings (or should be incorporating play), especially those not formally trained in playwork. The concepts are readily accessible and applicable. Furthermore, playwork instructors can mine the book for content and the reflective gems seeded by the authors to initiate discussions that focus directly on playwork practice.","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"21 1","pages":"228 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83372498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An exploratory study of facilitator adherence to a School-Based Filial Therapy programme","authors":"J. Cooper, Mong-lin Yu, T. Brown, L. MacKay","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2069349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2069349","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Filial therapy is a play therapy intervention where significant individuals who are not clinicians facilitate therapeutic play sessions with children. In School-Based Filial Therapy (SBFT), the direct treatment role is performed by specially trained education professionals. Concerns about fidelity in filial therapy have been raised historically; however, investigation has been limited. This mixed-methods study explored factors impacting facilitator adherence to SBFT. The qualitative component involved semi-structured interviews with eight facilitators. Quantitative data were gathered from: a visual analogue scale of facilitator stress and discomfort, the Differentiation of Self – Short Form and a SBFT observation form rating adherence. Overall, relationship processes occurring within the therapeutic system of the facilitator-child dyad were found to impact facilitator adherence via factors both internal and external to the facilitator. Practice implications include enhancing training and supervision processes for facilitators.","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"2 1","pages":"145 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88548393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}