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Exploring with chil...
Exploring with children, play in Irish primary schoolyards
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- Bergin, Michelle (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Hälsa, medicin och rehabilitering,Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Boyle, Bryan (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Hälsa, medicin och rehabilitering,Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Lilja, Margareta, Professor emerita (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Hälsa, medicin och rehabilitering
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- Prellwitz, Maria, 1960- (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Hälsa, medicin och rehabilitering
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- 2024
- 2024
- English.
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In: International Journal of Play. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2159-4937.
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- Children’s play in Irish schoolyards remains neglected in educational policies and practices despite government commitments to inclusive schools and children’s rights. There is a dearth of research on children’s perspectives of play, criticisms of ‘at risk’ discourses underpinning concerns for certain children’s play rights, and studies identifying exclusion within Irish schoolyards, particularly for children with minoritized identities. This inquiry informed by the theory of practice architectures used walking interviews to explore with twenty-three children their play practices in two Irish primary schools identified as disadvantaged. Analysis of the interviews generated three themes: (1) the state of play – cracks with(in) the routines of the schoolyard, (2) playing along and with(in) this shared space and (3) the hard yard. This inquiry contributes to understandings of children’s play with(in) Irish schoolyards, as socially situated practices with contrasting representations of play as habitual and emerging. Play was central to children’s social lives, identities, and friendships and interrelated with diverse constraints, exclusionary practices, and the (re)production of the ‘hard yard’. While mattering most children’s experiences of significant constraints and inequities, this inquiry also highlighted the transformative possibilities generated within play to create shared possibilities for individual and collective flourishing.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Arbetsterapi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Occupational Therapy (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Children's perspectives
- Irish schoolyards
- outdoor play
- practice architecture theory
- spatial justice
- walking interviews
- Occupational Therapy
- Arbetsterapi
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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