[Xmca-l] Re: Do adults play?

[Helen Grimmett]

Lois Holzman writes about the importance of play across the lifespan -
particularly using theatrical/improvisatory performance play as tools for
development. Carrie Lobman has also written about her improv work with
teachers.

Cheers,
Helen


Dr Helen Grimmett
Lecturer, Student Adviser,
Faculty of Education,
Building 902, Room 159
Monash University, Berwick campus
Phone: 9904 7171




On 21 October 2013 14:22, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:

> If so, what does it look like?
>
> I looked back at the suggestions sent to Caitlin Wubbena who had asked
> about the role of play in places like academia. It seemed like very few of
> the responses spoke to play in adulthood and fewer spoke to play in
> academia.
>
> So I'm wondering is the problem here that CHAT theorists are only
> interested in "play" as a thing that gets the child into a more expansive
> world (cf. Beth's concurrent thread on play among 1 year-olds)? Or is there
> a literature on "play" across the lifespan? And to my opening question:
> what would "play" look like in adolescence or adulthood?
>
> So, does anyone have any good leads on the role of play in adulthood?
>
> Seems like Bakhtin's work on Rabelais might be a start? But I don't know
> enough about his work to know if Bakhtin was using the concept of "play."
> (and other great satirists come to mind as well - Laurence Sterne's
> Tristram Shandy seems a nice early example of "play" in writing that goes
> beyond mere "comedy" and into a really complex form of "play", but there
> must be earlier examples of this type of play).
>
> Any ideas?
> -greg
>
>
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