Theme and Variation: Arranging Play's Forms, Functions, and "Colors"

Autor/in	Henricks, Thomas S.
Titel	Theme and Variation: Arranging Play's Forms, Functions, and "Colors"
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 10 (2018) 2, S.133-167 (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Play; Self Actualization; Ceremonies; Teaching Methods; Theories; Social Influences; Games; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Zeremoniell; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Theory; Theorie; Sozialer Einfluss; Game; Spiele; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	The author counters the common descriptions of play as endlessly diverse, ambiguous, and even paradoxical by describing it as a fundamental experience comparable to three others--ritual, work, and communitas. Play, he argues, entails a distinctive strategy of self-realization and a strategy for living. He first examines four basic types of play--exploration, construction, interpretation, and dialogue--and links them respectively to four patterns of self-location: marginality, privilege, subordination, and engagement. He then discusses the character and implications of the four kinds of play and evaluates a profoundly important variation in all play--that between its orderly, cooperative expression and its disorderly, oppositional articulation. Calling the first "green play" and the second "red play," the author asserts that both are pertinent to all four kinds of play and that both have important implications for self-realization. (As Provided).
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