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Playing with possibilities /

Contributor(s): Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Description: vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1527503798
  • 9781527503793
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF408 .P53 2017
Contents:
So we beat on : boats against the current / Peter O'Connor and Claudia Rozas Gómez -- Play school : teaching creative writing / Paula Morris -- Dark play : on an alternative politics of aspiration / Mary Ann Hunter and Abbey Macdonald -- Do you know how to play? a "beginners' guide" to the vocabularies of dramatic play / Julie Dunn -- Te kauwae runga, te kauwae raro : capturing the essence of the upper jaw through indigenous Māori arts education / Rawiri Hindle and Robyn Trinnick -- Playing with (im)possibilities of a creative curriculum for ECE / Sandy Farquhar and Adrienne Sansom -- Notions on play, squiggla, and a philosophy of mark making / Robert Gardiner -- Creativity, interdisciplinarity and fostering play as serious business / Anne Harris, Stacy Holman Jones, Larissa Hjorth and Misha Myers -- Playing Beowulf : play-based approaches to the telling of an old story in new and old ways with young people / Michael Anderson and David Cameron -- Play(writ)ing together : creative collaboration in the context of individual performance / Paul Gardiner -- The Jacqui Kennedy suit and how I became a teacher / Claudia Rozas Gómez -- Finding Neverland : the affordances of play for teachers' knowledge work / Alison O'Grady and Catherine Smyth -- "This is lovely, what a fun thing to do" : can research really be playful? / Jane Isobel Luton -- Play, learning, and creativity / Bruce Sheridan -- Imagical play : arts therapy and trauma / Deborah Green -- Dance and dementia : don't forget to play / Ralph Buck and Carlene Newall de Jesus -- Can't play anymore so we "play" at Rugby : a conversation on play with Peter and Ben / Peter O'Connor and Ben Dyson.
Summary: "Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together a multidisciplinary group of thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape and reshape who we are and the worlds in which we live. It offers a series of encounters with playful possibilities, and asks us to question, consider and ultimately celebrate the importance of fanciful approaches to living. This book is a companion to The Possibilities of Creativity (2016)"-- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references.

So we beat on : boats against the current / Peter O'Connor and Claudia Rozas Gómez -- Play school : teaching creative writing / Paula Morris -- Dark play : on an alternative politics of aspiration / Mary Ann Hunter and Abbey Macdonald -- Do you know how to play? a "beginners' guide" to the vocabularies of dramatic play / Julie Dunn -- Te kauwae runga, te kauwae raro : capturing the essence of the upper jaw through indigenous Māori arts education / Rawiri Hindle and Robyn Trinnick -- Playing with (im)possibilities of a creative curriculum for ECE / Sandy Farquhar and Adrienne Sansom -- Notions on play, squiggla, and a philosophy of mark making / Robert Gardiner -- Creativity, interdisciplinarity and fostering play as serious business / Anne Harris, Stacy Holman Jones, Larissa Hjorth and Misha Myers -- Playing Beowulf : play-based approaches to the telling of an old story in new and old ways with young people / Michael Anderson and David Cameron -- Play(writ)ing together : creative collaboration in the context of individual performance / Paul Gardiner -- The Jacqui Kennedy suit and how I became a teacher / Claudia Rozas Gómez -- Finding Neverland : the affordances of play for teachers' knowledge work / Alison O'Grady and Catherine Smyth -- "This is lovely, what a fun thing to do" : can research really be playful? / Jane Isobel Luton -- Play, learning, and creativity / Bruce Sheridan -- Imagical play : arts therapy and trauma / Deborah Green -- Dance and dementia : don't forget to play / Ralph Buck and Carlene Newall de Jesus -- Can't play anymore so we "play" at Rugby : a conversation on play with Peter and Ben / Peter O'Connor and Ben Dyson.

"Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together a multidisciplinary group of thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape and reshape who we are and the worlds in which we live. It offers a series of encounters with playful possibilities, and asks us to question, consider and ultimately celebrate the importance of fanciful approaches to living. This book is a companion to The Possibilities of Creativity (2016)"-- Back cover.

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