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PlaYY1ork: theory and practice Playvvork: theory and practice Edited by FRASER BROWN Open University Press Open University Press M&:Graw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangera Road Maidenhead, Berkshire SL62QL email: [email protected]:o.uk world wide web: www.openup.c:o.uk and Two Penn Plaza New York, NY 1012-2289 First Published 2003 Reprinted 2006, 2008 (twice), 2010 Copyright@ the editor and contributors 2003 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passqes for the purpose of aittdsm and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored In a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from tlie Coj>ydght licensing Agency Ltd of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, WlP OLP. A catalogue record of this book is available from the Brlttsb Library ISBN-10: 0 335 20944 0 (pbk) 0 335 20945 9 (hbk) ISBN-13: 978 0 335 20944 6 (pbk) 978 0 335 20945 3 {hbk) Wtnry of Congress catalopag-la-Pahllc:atlon Data Playwork : theory and practice I edited by Fraser Brown. p. cm. lndudes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-335-20945-9 - ISBN 0-335-20944-0 {pbk.) 1. Play. Z; Child development. 3. Reaeation centers. I. Brown, Fraser, 1951- LB1137 .P557 2002 790'.0l-dcZl 2002023855 0 Mixed Sources ProclJct goup from well-managed forests and other controlled so.irces FSC ~~g~~:ist~~~::~~h~0~~~~~:i69 Typeset by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bell and Bain Ltd., Glasgow In memory of Vanessa Kidd (1972-1999), playworker All royalties from this book go to: White Rose Initiative, whose Therapeutic Playwork Project is the subject of Chapter 11 Contents List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: childhood and play 1 Fraser Brown and Brian Cheesman Part 1: The roots of play and playwork 7 1 The essence of play 9 Sylwyn Guilbaud 2 Making play work: the fundamental role of play in the development of social relationship skills 18 Stephen Rennie 3 Towards playwork: an historical introduction to children's out-of-school play organizations in London (1860-1940) 32 Keith Cranwell Part 2: Theories of playwork 49 4 Compound flexibility: the role of playwork in child development 51 Fraser Brown 5 Play deprivation, play bias and playwork practice 66 Bob Hughes 6 Towards a psycholudic definition of playwork 81 Gordon Sturrock viii Contents Part 3: Putting theory into practice: the reftective practitioner 99 7 Professional playwork practice 101 Mick Conway 8 Adventure playgrounds in the twenty-first century 114 Tony Chilton 9 Establishing play in a local authority 128 Stuart Douglas 10 It's not what you know, but who you know! 142 f ackie Martin 11 Playwork in adversity: working with abandoned children in Romania 157 Sophie Webb and Fraser Brown 12 Playwork as reflective practice 176 Sue Palmer Bibliography 191 Index 203
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