Play in Oxford
"New Playwork"
- a wonderful resource book for anyone working with children, written by Annie Davy & Jane Gallagher.
I had a wonderful time in Oxford (England) discovering the great work done by the enthusiastic play team.
Their definition of play states:
'Play is freely chosen, personally directed, intrinsically motivated behaviour that actively engages the child.'
- they also refer to the work of Bob Hughes and Frank King saying:
'Play can be fun or serious. Through play children explore social, material and imaginary worlds and their relationship with them, elaborating all the while a flexible range of responses to the challenges they encounter. By playing children learn and develop as individuals and as members of the community.'
What about Catherine Garvey's (1991) characteristics of play:
-Play is pleasurable, enjoyable.....positively valued by the player.
-Play has no extrinsic goals (i.e. the process of playing is important in itself).
-Play is spontaneous and voluntary.....freely chosen by the player.
-Play involves some active engagement on the part of the player.
-Play has certain systematic relations to what is not play (i.e. play is linked with lots of other areas of activity: problem solving, creativity socialisation...)
Posted by Gay on 13th September, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks
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