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Author : Michael A. Downs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Cross-cultural Study of Adult Game Involvement written by Michael A. Downs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Schwartzman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461339383
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Transformations written by Helen Schwartzman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.
Author : James E. Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475807961
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of the Study of Play written by James E. Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of the Study of Play brings together in two volumes thinkers whose diverse interests at the leading edge of scholarship and practice define the current field. Because play is an activity that humans have shared across time, place, and culture and in their personal developmental timelines—and because this behavior stretches deep into the evolutionary past—no single discipline can lay claim to exclusive rights to study the subject. Thus this handbook features the thinking of evolutionary psychologists; ethologists and biologists; neuroscientists; developmental psychologists; psychotherapists and play therapists; historians; sociologists and anthropologists; cultural psychologists; philosophers; theorists of music, performance, and dance; specialists in learning and language acquisition; and playground designers. Together, but out of their varied understandings, the incisive contributions to The Handbook take on vital questions of educational policy, of literacy, of fitness, of the role of play in brain development, of spontaneity and pleasure, of well-being and happiness, of fairness, and of the fuller realization of the self. These volumes also comprise an intellectual history, retrospective looks at the great thinkers who have made possible the modern study of play.
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231517076
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book From Ritual to Record written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.
Author : Richard M. Lerner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470149221
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, Volume 2 written by Richard M. Lerner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work. This multidisciplinary handbook, edited by the premier scholars in the field, Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg, and with contributions from the leading researchers, reflects the latest empirical work and growth in the field.
Author : Professor of Educational Psychology Anthony D Pellegrini, PhD
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426418
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Future of Play Theory written by Professor of Educational Psychology Anthony D Pellegrini, PhD and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the impact of play on child development.
Author : Elliott M. Avedon
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : J. Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Study of Games written by Elliott M. Avedon and published by New York ; Toronto : J. Wiley. This book was released on 1971 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : José P. Zagal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029760
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies written by José P. Zagal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Baldur’s Gate, Genshin Impact, and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like worldbuilding, immersion, and player-character relations, as well as explore actual play and streaming, diversity, equity, inclusion, jubensha, therapeutic uses of RPGs, and storygames, journaling games, and other forms of text-based RPGs. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help students and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this interdisciplinary field. A comprehensive reference volume ideal for students and scholars of game studies and immersive experiences and those looking to learn more about the ever-growing, interdisciplinary field of RPG studies.
Author : Monica Evans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880596
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Videogames Studies: Concepts, Cultures, and Communication written by Monica Evans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the discussions that occurred during the 2nd Global Conference on Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment in July 2010. The chapters in this volume cover four primary topics: new frameworks for game studies and analysis, the various cultures surrounding gaming, questions of ethics and controversial...
Author : Vanessa Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Short- and Long-term Effects of Participation in a Cross-cultural Simulation Game on Intercultural Awareness written by Vanessa Mills and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increase in military operations in urban terrain has created a requirement for deployed personnel to interact with people from other cultural backgrounds. This research aims to identify a base level method of enhancing the general cultural awareness of deployed personnel. Previous research in the business community has led to developing simulation games to enhance these generic intercultural skills. The general approach of this work is for teams of players, each adopting a different synthetic culture, to negotiate a pre-defined outcome with the other teams. The aim is to produce insight into cultural differences through interactions with others, and to develop skills for dealing with those differences through negotiation. Debriefs immediately following game play are used to reinforce learning. To date, however, there are no quantitative methods of measuring the effectiveness of these games in terms of their ability to change attitudes and awareness. In addition, there do not appear to be any attempts to examine long-term retention of such changes. Consequently, this research measured the short- and long-term effectiveness of training through simulation to enhance intercultural awareness. Overall, results indicate an immediate and long-term increase in cultural understanding, while there were no changes in underlying value systems.
Author : John W. Berry
Publisher : John Berry
ISBN 13 : 9780205160761
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Cross-cultural Psychology: Social behavior and applications written by John W. Berry and published by John Berry. This book was released on 1997 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the human relations in a cultural context, this book explores various social psychology concepts and applied topics in the light of cross-cultural research. It also features the developments in the field as well as diversity in the cultural and theoretical backgrounds of the editors and chapter authors.
Author : Günther Lüschen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cross-cultural Analysis of Sport and Games written by Günther Lüschen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of an International Workshop at the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1967, sponsored by the UNESCO Committee for Sociology of Sport.
Author : Anthony D. Pellegrini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195393007
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play written by Anthony D. Pellegrini and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of play in human development has long been the subject of controversy. Despite being championed by many of the foremost scholars of the twentieth century, play has been dogged by underrepresentation and marginalization in literature across the scientific disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play marks the first attempt to examine the development of children's play through a rigorous and multidisciplinary approach. Comprising chapters from the foremost scholars in psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, this handbook resets the landscape of developmental science and makes a compelling case for the benefits of play. Edited by respected play researcher Anthony D. Pellegrini, The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play is both a scientific accomplishment and a shot across the bow for parents, educators, and policymakers regarding the importance of children's play in both development and learning.
Author : Association for The Anthropological Study Of Play
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918438164
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Play written by Association for The Anthropological Study Of Play and published by . This book was released on 1978-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clellan Stearns Ford
Publisher : New Haven : HRAF Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cross-cultural Approaches: Readings in Comparative Research written by Clellan Stearns Ford and published by New Haven : HRAF Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.H. Goldstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461255309
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Sports Violence written by J.H. Goldstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books about sports, even those written by scholars, are frequently little more than hagiography. They extol the virtue of athletics for participant and spectator alike. Of greater rarity are those that look critically at the political, social, economic, and psychological underpinnings of contemporary sports. Violence in sports is among the relatively neglected issues of serious study. Sports Violence is perhaps the first collection of scholarly theory and research to examine in detail aggression within and surrounding sports. As such, it seeks to present the broadest possible range of interpretations and perspectives. The book is, therefore, both interdisciplinary and international in scope. Two chapters, by Guttmann and Vamplew, are concerned with historical analyses of sports violence. Definitions and perspectives on aggression in general, and sports-related aggression in particular, are the topics of Chapters 4 through 7 by Smith, Bredemeier, Mark, Bryant, and Lehman, and Mummendey and Mummendey. Here, a wide variety of social and psychological theories are brought to bear on the conceptualization of aggression on the playing field and in the stands. Dunning and Liischen, both sociologists of sport, examine the origins, structure, and functions of violence, of sports, and of their interconnections. Psychological interpreta tions and research are presented in chapters by Russell and Keefer, Goldstein, and Kasiarz, while Bryant and Zillmann examine the portrayal and effects of aggression in televised sports.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Research Awards Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
