Play matters

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Degree Childhood and Youth Mind Map on Play matters, created by thehollobons on 06/05/2016.
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Play matters
  1. What is playing about?
    1. play is of crucial importance to children's wellbeing, and play-related skills are therefore important for all practitioners
      1. BUT can be difficult for adults to understand its value
        1. Opies - play is unrestricted - no rules/umpires etc/feeling of fellowship from doing same as everyone else
        2. Bruner - play is principle business of childhood
          1. Brown - contributes to social development, motor skills, cognitive development, exploration of ideas and creativity, emotional health and wellbeing, development of self
            1. Ennew - play is central to all human culture
          2. play is crucial to children's wellbeing as a form of learning, development, expression and investigation of identity, communication and connection with other children and with adults
            1. Christensen - engaging with cultures - context and timing of communication are crucial to process
              1. Mosaic approach - to recognise different voices or languages of children - participation, reflection, adaptability
          3. does play matter?
            1. play is essential to learning and development; it is also a vital part of children's identity, culture and quality of life, but it can struggle to be given priority over other items on an adult agenda
              1. BUT space and time to play is written in Article 31 of UNCRC as every child's entitlement
              2. A positive perspective on play could be seen as an essential component of a debate about what services and practitioners can try to offer to all children to improve their quality of life
                1. Margaret McMillan - nurseries all about play and experiencing the outdoors
                  1. Plowden report - play principle means of learning in childhood
                    1. BUT outflanked by health and safety, curriculum based education
                      1. OFSTED - more widespread range of activities as evaluation points to benefits for ch
                    2. Welsh assembly - national play strategy
                      1. places duty on LA's to address play needs of local childrren
                    3. play needs to be inclusive
                      1. Gallagher - inclusive childrens spaces - produced and reproduced to reflect various interests of all who wish to use it
                        1. can help to negotiate, take risks and overcome obstacles
                        2. Beresford - 3 factors essential for disabled ch play - resources, training, suitable environmnet
                          1. PLUS charity - Sterling
                            1. legislation supporting ch rights to play - some practitioners wary of incl disabled ch because they lack training
                          2. play is a vital means of communicating with children on a day to day basis, but is also an important way for practitioners to connect with children at times of trauma or stress
                            1. Play therapy - to help ch make sense of things and to cope with situations such as being in hospital
                          3. where can children play?
                            1. places to play, outside and inside, are still very important to children's quality of life
                              1. 80% play out, 72% want to play out more, 82% prefer natural spaces,
                                1. Forest School influence
                                  1. BUT still adults not comfortable with ch playing outside
                                    1. other barriers - being told off, traffic, fear of strangers
                                2. Marsh - new technologies and media good way to explore identities inlc gender
                                  1. ch active agents in the process of meaning-making
                                3. more children's services could become children's spaces
                                  1. Moss and Petrie - ch services sounds too formal - childrens spaces changes our view with possibilities and potentials
                                    1. play spaces made with ch rather than for them
                                  2. For play to be effective, children must be given sufficient time to immerse themselves, or wallow, in it, and as well as time, children need children's spaces
                                  3. A comparative view
                                    1. different approaches to children and childhood lead to different approaches to children's play
                                      1. Scandinavia - pedagogues relationship both personal and professional and not goal driven
                                        1. Moss and Petrie - good relationships promote ch play
                                        2. Nowegian - no wet playtime - outdoors important to ch development
                                        3. adults could choose to give play a greater priority in children's services
                                          1. play should not be marginalised in children's lives
                                            1. adults attitudes, particularly to risk and supervision, can limit the contribution of play to children's quality of life
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