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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Sutton-SmithPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9780674005815ISBN 10: 0674005813 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 15 May 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsBrian Sutton-Smith presents a lively, contemplative and challenging theoretical discussion of the category of diverse learnings ...that make up play...Sutton-Smith presents a variety of play dimensions that cause disturbance of theoretical certainty and bring together hitherto unconnected ideas on play in the tradition of creativity. The book explores its chosen rhetorics in a scholarly and yet undeniably accessible way. The material included is multi-faceted and multi-layered drawing on theories across the centuries and presenting a case for a new look at play. Play is taken beyond the rhetoric of progress leaving the reader alive and alert to the possibilities of play that transcend generations and cultures. -- Jill Williams British Journal of Educational Studies This book provides a comprehensive analysis of extant theory and research on the subject of play in children and adults in a variety of cultural contexts with relevant comparisons to play in nonhuman species. The work is thorough and well referenced and provides new insights on a classic topic in children's social development. The primary issue addressed is the ambiguous nature of play. Although we have a sense of what constitutes play, when asked to define it, explain its function, or even identify players, its paradoxical nature becomes apparent--it is and is not what it appears to be. Does and does not have a function, is and is not the purview of children. Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography Brian Sutton-Smith presents a lively, contemplative and challenging theoretical discussion of the 'category of diverse learnings'...that make up play... leaving the reader alive and alert to the possibilities of play that transcend generations and cultures. - Jill Williams, British Journal of Educational Studies [According to Sutton-Smith] although we have a sense of what constitutes play, when asked to define it, explain its function, or even identify players, its paradoxical nature becomes apparent - it is and is not what it appears to be. Does and does not have a function, is and is not the purview of children - Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography Author InformationBrian Sutton-Smith was Professor of Education, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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