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Playwork Theory and Practice

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ISBN-10: 0335209459

ISBN-13: 9780335209453

Edition: 2002

Authors: Fraser Brown

List price: $164.95
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In this title experienced practitioners offer sound practical advice about ways of improving playwork practice. The in-depth exploration of a range of theoretical perspectives should appeal to both playwork students and practising playworkers.
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Book details

List price: $164.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 11/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Fraser Brown is Professor of Playwork at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, where he is Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Playwork. He was Director of the playwork training agency Children First, has held advisory posts with Playboard and the National Playing Fields Association (NPFA) and managed a range of projects for the North West Play Association.

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: childhood and play
The roots of play and playwork
The essence of play
Making play work: the fundamental role of play in the development of social relationship skills
Towards playwork: an historical introduction to children's out-of-school play organizations in London (1860-1940)
Theories of playwork
Compound flexibility: the role of playwork in child development
Play deprivation, play bias and playwork practice
Towards a psycholudic definition of playwork
Putting theory into practice: the reflective practitioner
Professional playwork practice
Adventure playgrounds in the twenty-first century
Establishing play in a local authority
It's not what you know, but who you know!
Playwork in adversity: working with abandoned children in Romania
Playwork as reflective practice
Bibliography
Index