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Complicating the Notion of Play

 Complicating the Notion of Play

More recently, ECE scholars moved from categorizing play, or from trying to find the “nature” of play itself, to thinking about play in context and in relation to issues of power, gender, social positioning, cultural diversity, technology, consumerism, assessment, learning and thinking. In their book The Trouble with Play, the authors Susan Grieshaver and Felicity McArdele (2011), take a critical perspective on play, they argue that play is not always "innocent and fun" (p.1). They add that play should be thought of as political and that it needs to be evaluated from an ethical, not only educational perspective. Contemporary scholars challenged educators to think about play as a complex phenomenon and while play may be a universal phenomenon, it carries diverse meanings in different social, cultural and political contexts.

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