| Managing Editor: | Dr. Shelly Newstead, Common Threads Playwork, UK |
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| Associate Editors: | Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Cartmel, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia |
| Prof. Rick Worch, Bowling Green State University, USA |
'Playwork' originated in the adventure playgrounds created in the middle of the 20th century to provide children's spaces within urban environments. Playwork practice is currently used by professionals working with children in an extensive range of international settings, from parks to prisons and deserts to development projects. The practice of playwork draws on a number of diverse disciplines for its theoretical and technical foundations, and playwork practice and its origins are studied by scholars from a wide range of fields.
International Journal of Playwork Practice is the official journal of PARS playwork practice. The journal aims to advance playwork research and practice by providing the first ever interdisciplinary platform for the publication and dissemination of relevant scholarship to playwork practice. IJPP bridges the playwork theory-practice divide by facilitating practitioner access to relevant research, and also enables researchers interested in playwork to access a hitherto inaccessible field of practice and its literature.
Recent Content
Book Review: The British Betrayal of Childhood: Challenging Uncomfortable Truths and Bringing About Change
Helen Dee MSC
The Play Workforce in Wales – An Exploratory Demographic Study
Pete King and Justine Howard Dr
Children’s Views on Playtime in Schools: A Systematic Literature Review
Thomas Clements and Emma L. Harding Dr
The Play Workforce in Wales – Perceptions from Local Authority Play Sufficiency Lead Officers
Pete King and Justine Howard Dr
Animal-Assisted Play: A Strategy for Promoting Children’s Physical Activity Play
Jennifer A. Boisvert and W. Andrew Harrell
A Curiosity About Links Between Adventure Playgrounds, Loose Parts, Playwork Approach, a State of "Flow" and Children’s Wellbeing
Angus Ian Gorrie
What do children need from playwork in the time of COVID-19? A reflection on playwork practice in a pandemic.
Freya H. Howard
What if and What More: disturbing habits of thought about playwork ‘re-search’
Wendy K. Russell, John Fitzpatrick, and Bridget Handscomb
Play Spaces as Heterotopia: Seeking New Ways to Trouble the Discourses and Enactments of Playwork
Linda J. Shaw
How does a Level 2 Rights Respecting School facilitate play for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?
Francesca Woods and Caroline Bond
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