Playwork in Practice

"Playwork in Practice introduces the ways that playwork can be used across the children's workforce, including carers, qualified playworkers, parents and other adults. The chapters focus on the following areas where the playwork approach can be applied: behaviour, adult expectations, relationships and inclusion, space, environment and outdoors, age, risk, and resilience, emotions and resilience, health, well-being and gender. Using a reflexive reflective approach, the book offers vivid descriptions of interactions between children and adults in a range of different circumstances and analyses these interactions critically"--