This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and res

Recognizing the potential research with and about young people can have in decision making on multiple levels of policy and service provision, this book provide

WINNER: 2004 AESA Critics' Choice Award "With wonderful clarity Maggie MacLure shows how deconstructionism opens new avenues of critical inquiry and understandi

Children’s play throughout history has been free, spontaneous, and intertwined with work, set in the playgrounds of the fields, streams, and barnyards. Childr

Through compelling examples, Brian Edmiston presents the case for why and how adults should play with young children to create with them a 'workshop for life'.