Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Play from Birth and Beyond
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Play from Birth and Beyond
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While firmly acknowledging the importance of play in early childhood, this book interrogates the assumption that play is a birthright.
Sandra Lynch (PhD) is Director of the Institute for Ethics and Society and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney campus. Her research interests lie in applied and professional ethics, values education, and friendship. She is author of Philosophy and Friendship (Edinburgh UP, 2005); Strategies for a Thinking Classroom (Primary English Teachers Association, Australia, 2008); “Friendship and Happiness from a Philosophical Perspective” in Friendship and Happiness (Springer, 2015) and “Philosophy, play and ethics in education” in Philosophical Perspectives on Play (Routledge, 2015).
Deborah Pike (PhD) is the Discipline Head and a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus. Her research interests include cultural studies, postcolonial and modernist literary studies, and wellbeing and play studies. She is author of The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald (University of Missouri Press, 2016); and “The Russian Way of Happiness: Choice, Love and Community” in On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century (UWA Press, 2016), a book that she also co-edited.
Cynthia à Beckett (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus and an experienced early childhood educator and advisor. Her research interests explore connections between the sociology of childhood, young children and families and the topic of play. Her publications include “Imaginative education explored through the concept of Playing in the In-between” in Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice, a Many-sided Vision (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). She is a member of the Board of the prestigious SDN Children Services and chairs the Board’s Research Ethics subcommittee.
Sandra Lynch (PhD) is Director of the Institute for Ethics and Society and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney campus. Her research interests lie in applied and professional ethics, values education, and friendship. She is author of Philosophy and Friendship (Edinburgh UP, 2005); Strategies for a Thinking Classroom (Primary English Teachers Association, Australia, 2008); “Friendship and Happiness from a Philosophical Perspective” in Friendship and Happiness (Springer, 2015) and “Philosophy, play and ethics in education” in Philosophical Perspectives on Play (Routledge, 2015).
Deborah Pike (PhD) is the Discipline Head and a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus. Her research interests include cultural studies, postcolonial and modernist literary studies, and wellbeing and play studies. She is author of The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald (University of Missouri Press, 2016); and “The Russian Way of Happiness: Choice, Love and Community” in On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century (UWA Press, 2016), a book that she also co-edited.
Cynthia à Beckett (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus and an experienced early childhood educator and advisor. Her research interests explore connections between the sociology of childhood, young children and families and the topic of play. Her publications include “Imaginative education explored through the concept of Playing in the In-between” in Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice, a Many-sided Vision (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). She is a member of the Board of the prestigious SDN Children Services and chairs the Board’s Research Ethics subcommittee.