Book Chapter

Imagining playwork using sociological perspectives from Mills, Foucault and Gordon

Abstract

This chapter considers the potential of imagination, discursive storytelling and the fictive in social research with children and young people. It draws on an auto-ethnographic PhD thesis on work in early childhood and subsequent publications relating to playwork. The purpose is to construct methodologies which draw on philosophy and sociology to better articulate the lived experiences of children and practitioners in relation to 21st-century institutions, such as playwork, education and youth services. In doing so it is hoped that matters of social justice might be addressed at a local as well as a more structural level in our work within these specific social and cultural spaces.

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Authors

Shaw, Linda J.

Oxford Brookes departments

School of Education

Dates

Year of publication: 2020
Date of RADAR deposit: 2020-06-05

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Related resources

This RADAR resource is the Accepted Manuscript of Imagining playwork using sociological perspectives from Mills, Foucault and Gordon
This RADAR resource is Part of Further perspectives on researching play from a playwork perspective [ISBN: 9781138394179] / edited by Pete King, Shelly Newstead.