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From Ancient Wars to the Modern Playground

Author : Constandina Pozirekides Semponis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book From Ancient Wars to the Modern Playground written by Constandina Pozirekides Semponis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research presented in this thesis aims to connect Aristotle’s theory of catharsis to modern applied theatre for children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In ancient Greece, forms of applied theatre were utilized for soldiers returning home from war. The Greek tragic plays directly dealt with traumas that these soldiers may have experienced, depicting distinct symptoms of what is now known as PTSD. However, PTSD does not only effect soldiers, but can be prominent in anyone, including children, who has experienced a traumatic event. Catharsis in Greek tragedy is considered an outcome that releases the toxic emotions that are prevalent in individuals with PTSD. However, the outcome of catharsis in the tragedies would not be as effective without the support of the Chorus. In this thesis, applied theatre practitioners and companies Craig Haen, Rivka Felsenstein, the Hancock Center for Dance Therapy, and Storycatchers Theatre are studied to connect the prominence of catharsis in children and teenagers as a result of the use of Choral conventions when expressing a tragic story. The Choral conventions referred to are dance, music, and mask. I hypothesize that catharsis effected through theatre experience is produced in participatory applied theatre for young participants, pre-school age to teenage, who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The Playground

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Playground written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosopher’s Playground

Author : Jacob L. Goodson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725245647
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher’s Playground written by Jacob L. Goodson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in 1994, scriptural reasoning has been practiced by academics and religious laypeople on an international scale. Scriptural reasoning is an activity or practice where Jews, Christians, and Muslims read and study together short passages from their traditionally sacred texts. In this book, Jacob L. Goodson describes this activity by giving a tour through modern philosophy and showing how certain arguments, ideas, and theories from modern philosophers help make sense of this inter-religious practice. According to Goodson, one of the most interesting aspects of the practice of scriptural reasoning concerns how its driven by a tension between pragmatism and semiotics--what he calls purposefulness (pragmatism) vs. playfulness (semiotics) throughout the book. Can inter-religious practices only be playful, in terms of an academic "leisure activity"? Or do inter-religious practices need to strive toward a greater end or even a higher purpose, such as peace-making among the Abrahamic faiths or inter-religious friendships? In each individual chapter, Goodson explores this tension within the practice of scriptural reasoning. Utilizing Immanuel Kant's deontology, Goodson concludes by demonstrating how the practice of scriptural reasoning might work if only two rules are in place while participating in it.

The Normal Course in Play

Author : National Recreation Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Normal Course in Play written by National Recreation Association and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Playgrounds to Playstation

Author : Carroll Pursell
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421416514
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book From Playgrounds to Playstation written by Carroll Pursell and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “engaging social history of play” explores how technology and culture have shaped toys, games, and leisure—and vice versa (Choice). In this romp through the changing landscape of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American toys, games, hobbies, and amusements, technology historian Carroll Pursell poses a simple but interesting question: What can we learn by studying the relationship between technology and play? From Playgrounds to PlayStation explores how play reflects and drives the evolution of American culture. Pursell engagingly examines the ways in which technology affects play and play shapes people. The objects that children (and adults) play with and play on, along with their games and the hobbies they pursue, can reinforce but also challenge gender roles and cultural norms. Inventors—who often talk about “playing” at their work, as if motivated by the pure fun of invention—have used new materials and technologies to reshape sports and gameplay, sometimes even crafting new, extreme forms of recreation, but always responding to popular demand. Drawing from a range of sources, including scholarly monographs, patent records, newspapers, and popular and technical journals, the book covers numerous modes and sites of play. Pursell touches on the safety-conscious playground reform movement, the dazzling mechanical innovations that gave rise to commercial amusement parks, and the media’s colorful promotion of toys, pastimes, and sporting events. Along the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly, both reflecting consumer choices and driving innovators and manufacturers to promote toys that involve entirely new kinds of play—from LEGOs and skateboards to beading kits and videogames.

Once Upon a Playground

Author : Biondo, Brenda
Publisher : ForeEdge
ISBN 13 : 1611685125
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Playground written by Biondo, Brenda and published by ForeEdge. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides. Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these iconic structures, celebrating their place in our culture and the collective memories of generations. In it, contemporary photos of vintage pieces of playground equipment are juxtaposed with images of the very same pieces as they were shown in classic catalogs, postcards, and photographs. The result is a haunting time capsule showing a rapidly vanishing part of our country's cultural heritage. Whatever the playgrounds of your childhood looked like, the gorgeous photographs in this book will transport you back in time and remind you of just how important play can really be.

Developing Early Childhood Services: Past, Present And Future

Author : Baldock, Peter
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335238734
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Developing Early Childhood Services: Past, Present And Future written by Baldock, Peter and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides fascinating insights for students on Early Childhood Studies courses and other courses aimed at people intending to work with young children. It should also be of interest to students of social history. --Book Jacket.

Play in Education

Author : Joseph Lee
Publisher : New York, The Macmillan Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play in Education written by Joseph Lee and published by New York, The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bouve collection.

Martha Graham's Cold War

Author : Victoria Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190610360
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Martha Graham's Cold War written by Victoria Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013, titled Strange commodity of cultural exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on tour, 1955-1987.

Theory in Context and Out

Author : Stuart Reifel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001758
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Theory in Context and Out written by Stuart Reifel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory in and out of Context furthers discourse and understanding about the complex phenomenon we know as play. Play, as a human and animal activity, can be understood in terms of cultural, social, evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.This effort necessarily includes inquiry from a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, psychology, education, biology, anthropology, and leisure studies. Work from a number of those disciplines is represented in this book. This volume includes sections covering Foundations and Theory of Play, Gender and Children's Play, Theory of Mind, Adult-Child Play, and Classroom Play. Scholarly analyses and reports of research from diverse disciplines amplify our understanding of play in Western and non-Western societies.

The Lore of the Playground

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407089323
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Lore of the Playground written by Steve Roud and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more. Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, clapping games more recently. Some pastimes, such as skipping, have proved remarkably resilient, their complicated rules carefully handed down from one class to the next. Many are now the stuff of distant memory. And some traditions have proved to be strongly regional, loved by children in one part of the country, unknown to those elsewhere. All are brilliantly and meticulously recorded by Steve Roud, who has drawn on interviews with hundreds of people aged from 8 to 80 to create a fascinating picture of all our childhoods.

The Play World

Author : Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271087420
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Play World written by Patricia Anne Simpson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.

Kraus' Recreation & Leisure in Modern Society

Author : Mclean
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284106810
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Kraus' Recreation & Leisure in Modern Society written by Mclean and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eleventh Edition of Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. It addresses contemporary issues facing the recreation and leisure profession and focuses on challenges and opportunities that impact the profession now as well as years from now. Extensive research into emerging trends helps support the text and provide insights into the future.

The American Amusement Park

Author : Dale Samuelson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760309817
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The American Amusement Park written by Dale Samuelson and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic retrospective covers more than 100 years of images from the history of the American amusement park.

A History of Children's Play and Play Environments

Author : Joe L. Frost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135251673
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book A History of Children's Play and Play Environments written by Joe L. Frost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of children’s play and play environments, informing where we are today and why we need to re-establish play as a priority. Ultimately, the author proposes active solutions to the current state of play deprivation.

Ambush at Central Park

Author : Mark Bulik
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 153150261X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Ambush at Central Park written by Mark Bulik and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil. In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army’s top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: “Cruxy” O’Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I. Cruxy’s last betrayal dealt a stunning blow to Ireland’s struggle for independence: Six of his IRA comrades were killed when he told police the location of their safe house outside Cork. A year later, the IRA gunned him down in a hail of bullets before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at the corner of 84th Street and Central Park West. Based primarily on first-hand accounts, most of them never before published, Ambush at Central Park is a cinematic exploration of the enigma of “Cruxy” O’Connor: Was he really a decorated war hero who became a spy for Britain? When he defected to the IRA, did his machine gun really jam in a crucial attack? When captured, did he give up his IRA comrades only under torture? Was he a British spy all along? Or was he pursuing a decades-old blood feud between his family and that of one of his comrades? A longtime editor at The New York Times, author Mark Bulik delved through Irish government archives, newspaper accounts, census data, and unpublished material from the families of the main actors. Together they add to the sensational story of a rebel ambush, a deadly police raid, a dinner laced with poison, a daring prison break, a boatload of tommy guns on the Hoboken waterfront, an unlikely pair of spies who fall in love, and an audacious assassination plot against the British cabinet. Gravely wounded and near death, Cruxy refused to cooperate with the detectives investigating the case. And so, the spy who stopped spying and the gunman who stopped shooting became the informer who wouldn’t inform, even at death’s door. Here is a forgotten chapter of Irish and New York history: the story of the only officially authorized IRA attack on American soil.

SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood

Author : Elizabeth Brooker
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473907160
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood written by Elizabeth Brooker and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This Handbook offers diverse perspectives from scholars across the globe who help us see play in new ways. At the same time the basic nature of play gives a context for us to learn new theoretical frameworks and methods. A real gem!′ - Beth Graue, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, USA Play and learning scholarship has developed considerably over the last decade, as has the recognition of its importance to children’s learning and development. Containing chapters from highly respected researchers, whose work has been critical to building knowledge and expertise in the field, this Handbook focuses on examining historical, current and future research issues in play and learning scholarship. Organized into three sections which consider: theoretical and philosophical perspectives on play and learning play in pedagogy, curriculum and assessment play contexts. The Handbook′s breadth, clarity and rigor will make it essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students, as well as professionals with interest in this dynamic and changing field. Liz Brooker is Reader in Early Childhood in the Faculty of Children and Learning at the Institute of Education, University of London. Mindy Blaise is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Susan Edwards is Associate Professor in Curriculum and Pedagogy at Australian Catholic University. This handbook′s International Advisory Board included: Jo Aliwood, The University of Newcastle, Australia Pat Broadhead, Leeds Metropolitan University, Australia Stig Brostrom, Aarhus University, Denmark Hasina Ebrahim, University of the Free State, South Africa Beth Graue, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, USA Amita Gupta, The City College of New York, CUNY, USA Marjatta Kalliala, University of Helsinki, Finland Rebecca Kantor, University of Colorado Denver, USA Colette Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Ellen Sandseter, Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education, Norway