Play/Playwork Theory
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IPA EWNI Lifetime Honorary Member, Peter Heseltine sent this in as a contribution to current debates about the nature and future of play. As Peter himself says at the start of the paper:
It was shelved because play at a national level held the seeds of improvement and I had no wish for even my limited understanding to affect it. Unearthed some years later, I realised that nothing had really changed and I was still frustrated about children’s play!
© Peter Heseltine 2013 click Play in the past
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Paul Hocker took a break to visit Berlin, where he spent time visiting play spaces around the city. Here he lists 10 reasons why Berlin is a great place to play. © Paul Hocker/London Play 2010 reproduced here with their kind permission: click Swinging Berlin
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Do children need access to the natural world? Perry Else comments on this topic in this article written for SutcliffePlay’s magazine 'Playback' and reproduced with permission in Edition 9 of Newsbrief © Perry Else, September 2009
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The Playwork Principles establish a professional and ethical framework for playwork. For a copy of The Playwork Principles: click http://www.playwales.org.uk/page.asp?id=50
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The playground as therapeutic space: playwork as healing - also known as ‘The Colorado Paper’ © Gordon Sturrock and Perry Else 1998. "More than anything else the Colorado Paper demonstrated that authoritative work regarding the relationship between playwork and the phenomenon of play could be written by and for playworkers without reference or apology to other more established disciplines." For a copy of 'The Colorado Paper': click http://www.ludemos.co.uk/papers.htm
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What is 'adulteration' in play? What is dysplay? What is a Ludogogue? To find out about these and other key terms in psycholudics click http://www.ludemos.co.uk/papers.htm