Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Exploring Play: the Importance of Play in Everyday Life
This interdisciplinary course explored the nature and value of play throughout life, across cultures and communities.
7 weeks, 3 hours per week
Elizabeth Wood
Professor of Education
The University of Sheffield
Jackie Marsh
Professor of Education
The University of Sheffield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe Brian Sutton-Smith’s seven rhetorics of play.
- Explore the history of toys and games.
- Identify continuity and change in play across centuries.
- Compare play activities across cultures.
- Debate the impact of modern technology on play.
- Investigate where children and teenagers play in your neighborhood.
- Discuss the provision and exclusion of play spaces in society.
- Explore the role of emotion and gender in children’s play.
- Evaluate the role of play during times of illness, trauma or accident.
- Investigate types of play in virtual worlds.
- Summarise the experiences of activists, practitioners and parents in relation to disability and play.
- Demonstrate an understanding of serious play through playful missions.
- Reflect on the relationship between play, creativity and innovation in the workplace.
Syllabus
- The history and diversity of play.
- Definitions and rhetorics of play.
- Play across lifespan, cultures and contexts.
- Play in outdoor and indoor environments.
- Emotion, gender and play.
- Trauma and play.
- Disability and play.
- Teenagers, adults and play.
- Intergenerational play.
- Modern technology and play.
- The relationship between virtual play and the outside world.
- Play, curiosity, creativity and innovation.
Issued on 21st June 2018
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