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Play and Performance : Play and Culture Studies by Jim Johnson (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Author: Lobman, Carrie (Editor), O'Neill, Barbara E. (Editor), Johnson, Jim (Contribution by). Number of Pages: 294. Weight: 0.95 lbs. Publication Date: 2011-09-08. ISBN13: 9780761855316.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-100761855319
ISBN-139780761855316
eBay Product ID (ePID)109071760
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlay and Performance : Play and Culture Studies
Number of Pages294 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicTheater / General, Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Acting & Auditioning, Performance
GenreArt, Performing Arts
AuthorJim Johnson
Book SeriesPlay and Culture Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-925332
Series Volume NumberVolume 11
Table Of ContentForeword Introduction: Play, Performance, Learning, and Development: Exploring the Relationship Part I: Play and Performance in Teaching and Teacher Education Chapter 1: Playworlds - An Art of Development Chapter 2: Complicating the Role of Play in Building Classroom Community Chapter 3: Play Intervention and Play Development Chapter 4: Critical Performative Pedagogy in Urban Teacher Education: Voices From the Field Chapter 5: Bringing out the Playful Side of Mathematics: Using Methods From Improvisational Theater in Professional Development for Urban Middle School Math Teachers Part II: Promoting Human Development Using Performance Chapter 6: Play As A Staging Ground for Performance and Life Chapter 7: Playing With Asperger's Syndrome: We're Not Supposed To Be Able To Do This, Are We? Chapter 8: Social Therapy with Children with Special Needs and Their Families Part III: New Understandings of Play and Performance Chapter 9: Play as Deconstruction Chapter 10: Performing Groups as Distributed Creative Systems: A Case Study
SynopsisPlay and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from a range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The chapters cover an array of practices that can be seen across the play to performance continuum. Taken together, the myriad ways that play is performance and performance is play become clear, sometimes blurring the need for distinction. The volume provides play advocates, researchers and practitioners a wealth of practical and theoretical ideas for expanding the use of performance as a tool for creating playful environments where children and adults can create and develop., Play and Performance broadens the understanding of what play is. The chapters cover an array of practices that can be seen across the play to performance continuum, providing advocates, researchers, and practitioners a wealth of practical and theoretical ideas for expanding the use of performance as a tool.
LC Classification NumberLB1137.P528 2011
