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Ambiguity Of Play

Name: Ambiguity Of Play
Author: Brian Sutton-Smith

Auteur: Brian Sutton-Smith

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Brian Sutton-Smith

Engels
Paperback
9780674005815
15 mei 2001
288 pagina's

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Is play an adaptation that teaches us skills and inducts us into communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or fate, deployed in games of chance, or daydreaming, enacted in art? Sutton-Smith considers each possibility as framed in disciplines ranging from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology.

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it has been proposed, elaborated, and debated in disciplines from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology.

Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct “rhetorics”—the ancient discourses of Fate, Power, Communal Identity, and Frivolity and the modern discourses of Progress, the Imaginary, and the Self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse’s “objective” theory.

This work reveals more distinctions and disjunctions than affinities, with one striking exception: however different their descriptions and interpretations of play, each rhetoric reveals a quirkiness, redundancy, and flexibility. In light of this, Sutton-Smith suggests that play might provide a model of the variability that allows for “natural” selection. As a form of mental feedback, play might nullify the rigidity that sets in after successful adaption, thus reinforcing animal and human variability. Further, he shows how these discourses, despite their differences, might offer the components for a new social science of play.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 mei 2001
Aantal pagina's: 288
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Hoofdauteur: Brian Sutton-Smith
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Editie: New edition
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Product breedte: 151 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 228 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 381 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Onderwijs & Didactiek

Gezin & Relaties

Psychologie

Kinderpsychologie

Gedragspsychologie

Adolescenten

Kinderen

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Taal: Engels
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