Re-imagining Playwork through a Poststructural Lens

Name: Re-imagining Playwork through a Poststructural Lens
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Re-imagining Playwork through a Poststructural LensStories from the Climbing Frame\nAuthor(s): Linda Jane Shaw\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032028415, 978-1032028415\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and research. \n\nDrawing on theoretical concepts used by sociologists and philosophers, such as the sociological imagination (Mills); hauntings and the fictive (Derrida) and technologies of power and the self (Foucault), the text considers how these devices may be methodologically productive for playwork research. It reframes research into children and childhood as a process in which research and practice are connected but diverse skills. The book raises questions around power and voice, and highlights the complexity of research which involves human participants and their roles as res.