Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective (Paperback, 1)

Foreword (Peter K. Smith)　

Introduction (Pete King and Shelly Newstead)

1. Why the Playworker’s Mind-set is Ideal for Research with Children: Child Researchers Investigate Education Rights in Nicaragua (Harry Shier)

2. Playwork Research as the Art of ‘Mirroring’ (Shelly Newstead)

3. Nomadic Wonderings on Playwork Research: Putting a Dialectical and Ethnographic Methodology to Work Again (Wendy Russell)

4. Researching Children’s Play as a Playworker-Ethnographer (Hannah Smith Brennan)

5. Playing at Research: Playfulness as a Form of Knowing and Being in Research with Children (Philip Waters)

6. Process, Participation and Reflection: How Playwork Practice Influenced a Mixed Method Approach to Researching Children’s Perception of Choice in their Play (Pete King)

7. Using Action Research to Explore Play Facilitation in School-based School-age Childcare Settings (Eva Kane)

Conclusion (Pete King and Shelly Newstead)