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Special Issue on the History of Play
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-22, 04:59 authored by Katherine Darian-SmithKatherine Darian-Smith, Sleight, S‘Children’, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, ‘will play anywhere and with anything’ (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has even been argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity ‘older than culture’ (Huizinga, 1949, p. 1). The historian’s natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factors of geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gender and social class. Building on burgeoning scholarship concerning the construction and experience of children’s play worlds, this special edition of the International Journal of Play offers soundings of the field and an encouragement to venture still deeper in accounting for change through time, the very currency of historical enquiry and a potential wide-angle corrective to accounts of play concerned exclusively with contemporary themes.
History
Publication title
International Journal of PlayVolume
5ISSN
2159-4953Department/School
College Office - College of Arts, Law and EducationPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRepository Status
- Restricted