Copyright
Anna Beresin; Julia Bishop;Published On
2023-06-01ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
522 pages (xxxii+490)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1385454677LCCN
2022361778BIC
- JF
- JHB
- JHBS
- JNC
- MBNH
- JMC
- JHMC
BISAC
- SOC026040
- SOC002010
- SOC047000
- PSY012000
- PSY034000
- PSY004000
- PSY002000
LCC
- HQ782
Keywords
- coronavirus
- lockdowns
- play
- pandemic
- folklore
- psychology
- sociology
- anthropology
- education
- playwork
Play in a Covid Frame
Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation
- Anna Beresin (editor)
- Julia Bishop (editor)
Endorsements
Play allows us to step temporarily out of reality, often in ways that allow us to understand and cope with that reality. This is especially true for children, but to some degree is true for all of us. The COVID pandemic offered a unique opportunity to witness ways that stressful disruption can alter play and play can ameliorate stressful disruption. Anna Beresin, Julia Bishop, and the chapter authors of this book have documented wonderfully some of the ways the world adapted, playfully, to a disruption that, without play, would have been more tragic than it was.
Peter Gray
Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, and author of 'Free to Learn: Why Releasing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life'.
Reviews
There is only one word to describe [...] Play in a Covid Frame: monumental. [It] will set the standard for all further discussions on the topic of creative play in times of pandemics, as well as being a rich resource of folkloric material for use by future researchers.
James H. Grayson
Folklore, 2024. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2024.2351283
Contents
Introduction
(pp. xix–xxxii)- Anna Beresin
- Julia Bishop
- Julia Bishop
- Živka Krnjaja
- Nevena Mitranić
- Holly Sienkiewicz
- Jenn Beideman
- Beatriz LeBron
- Shanielia Lewis
- Emma Morrison
- Lydia Rivera
- Dina Faticone
- Maria O’Dwyer
- Carmel Hannan
- Patricia Neville
- Pete King
6. Playworkers’ Experiences, Children’s Rights and Covid-19: A Case Study of Kodomo Yume Park, Japan
(pp. 119–140)- Mitsunari Terada
- Mariia Ermilova
- Hitoshi Shimamura
- Katriina Heljakka
8. ‘This Is the Ambulance, This Truck’: Covid as Frame, Theme and Provocation in Philadelphia, USA
(pp. 167–190)- Anna Beresin
9. Parents’ Perspectives on Their Children’s Play and Friendships during the Covid-19 Pandemic in England
(pp. 191–214)- Caron Carter
10. Digital Heroes of the Imagination: An Exploration of Disabled-Led Play in England during the Covid-19 Pandemic
(pp. 215–238)- William Renel
- Jessica Thom
- Nicolas Le Bigre
- Suzanne M. Egan
- Jennifer Pope
- Chloé Beatty
- Clara Hoyne
13. Children’s Emerging Play and Experience in the Covid-19 Era: Educational Endeavours and Changes in South Korea
(pp. 285–298)- Pool Ip Dong
- John Potter
- Michelle Cannon
15. Happy Yardi Gras! Playing with Carnival in New Orleans during the Covid-19 Pandemic
(pp. 319–342)- Martha Radice
- Judy McKinty
- Ruth Hazleton
- Danni von der Borch
- Anna Beresin
18. What’s behind the Mask? Family, Fandoms and Playful Caring around Children’s Masks during the Covid-19 Pandemic
(pp. 395–426)- Yinka Olusoga
- Catherine Bannister
- Heather Shirey
Conclusion: Covid in a Play Frame
(pp. 441–446)- Anna Beresin
- Julia Bishop
- Anna Beresin
- Julia Bishop
- Chloé Beatty
- Caron Carter
- Suzanne Egan
- Beatriz LeBron
- Ruth Hazleton
- Katriina Heljakka
- Nicolas Le Bigre
- Shanielia Lewis
- Judy McKinty
- Nevena Mitranić
- Emma Morrison
- Patricia Neville
- John Potter
- Martha Radice
- Holly Sienkiewicz
- Danni von der Borch
Contributors
Anna Beresin
(editor)Anna Beresin, PhD, serves as professor of psychology and folklore at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-edits the International Journal of Play and studies children’s folklore, primate physical play, language play and the connections between play, culture and art. Her books include The Character of Play (2019), The Art of Play: Recess and the Practice of Invention (2014), and Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling (2010). She co-authored Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation with Brigitta Herrmann, Manfred Fischbeck, and Elia Sinaico (2018). Visit her at www.annaberesin.com.
Julia Bishop
(editor)Julia Bishop is research associate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK with a PhD in folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has documented play and social inclusion, playground games and songs in the new media age, digital play in the early years, memories and experiences of play, and play during the Covid-19 pandemic. Julia is co-chair of the British Academy research project Childhoods and Play: The Opie Archive (www.opiearchive.org), and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play. Her publications include contributions to Play Today in the Primary School Playground (2001), Children, Media and Playground Cultures (2013), Children’s Games in the New Media Age (2014), Changing Play (2014), and The Lifework and Legacy of Iona and Peter Opie (2019).