Children Under Construction: Critical Essays on Play as Curriculum- With a Foreword by Jack Zipes

by Drew Chappell

This edited collection explores the roles of material culture in socializing young people through their play. Authors explore notions of play from diverse cultural viewpoints, as well as the impact of technology on play, and the kinds of resistant and liberatory play children might partake in. Informed by the field of performance studies, the book considers play as performance, asking questions about embodiment at physical, relational, and ideological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143310623X
• ISBN13: 9781433106231
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"