Playwork in Practice: Applying the Playwork Lens Across the Children's Workforce

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Ali Wood (Independent Scholar, UK) Julia Sexton (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Playwork in Practice

Applying the Playwork Lens Across the Children's Workforce

Ali Wood (Independent Scholar, UK), Julia Sexton (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Jacky Kilvington (Independent Scholar, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
31 October 2024

Educational strategies & policy; Pre-school & kindergarten

Playwork in Practice introduces the ways that playwork can be used across the children’s workforce, including carers, qualified teachers, parents and other adults. You will learn the theoretical and practical aspects of the playwork approach supported by a wealth of research-evidence, this book is for anyone studying playwork or looking to use it in their own practice.

The chapters focus on the following areas where the playwork approach can be applied: behaviour, adult expectations, relationships and inclusion, space, environment and outdoors, age, risk, and resilience, emotions and resilience, health, well-being and gender. Using a reflexive reflective approach, the book offers vivid descriptions of interactions between children and adults in a range of different circumstances and analyses these interactions critically. Each chapter includes a real-life story with analysis based on the authors conversations with carers, playworkers, parents and other adults. The chapters also include reflective questions.

By: Ali Wood (Independent Scholar UK), Julia Sexton (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Jacky Kilvington (Independent Scholar, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781350162013
ISBN 10: 1350162019
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 31 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ali Wood is a freelance playwork consultant. She is currently a director of The Youth Opportunities Board Solihull, has co-managed Meriden Adventure Playground for the last several years and is a trustee of The Playwork Foundation. She has researched and written about all of these endeavours and both trained and assessed related qualifications. She is co-author, with Jacky Kilvington, of Reflective Playwork (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Gender, Sex and Children's Play (Bloomsbury, 2016). Julia Sexton is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is a trustee of Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and The Playwork Foundation. She has been involved in playwork for over 35 years, working in various play settings including playschemes, after school clubs, community projects, adventure playgrounds as well as being a playwork trainer and assessor. She has been a primary school teacher, a carer, a family support worker and worked in Special Education. Jacky Kilvington (now retired) was originally an art teacher in school and a part-qualified, part-time youth worker. She also worked for community recreation as a playworker on holiday playschemes. Subsequently she developed a holiday club for the children of college students and ran an afterschool club. Throughout her career she has worked as a playwork consultant and has designed, written, delivered and assessed material for many of the national playwork qualification providers. She is co-author, with Ali Wood, of Reflective Playwork (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Gender, Sex and Children's Play (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Reviews for Playwork in Practice: Applying the Playwork Lens Across the Children's Workforce

This is a much-needed, relevant and timely text. For the last two decades, the playwork profession has moved beyond the confines of the adventure playground and this book captures the contribution of a playwork approach to the wider children’s workforce. -- Alexandra Long, Course Director for BA (Hons) Childhood Development & Playwork, Leeds Beckett University, UK