[Open-education] CONFERENCE: “PLAY, SELF-ACTIVITY, REPRESENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT”

[Valkanova, Yordanka (yordanka.valkanova@canterbury.ac.uk)]

CONFERENCE: “PLAY, SELF-ACTIVITY, REPRESENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT”, Canterbury, Kent, UK, 26-28 June 2014
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – DEADLINE EXTENDED
The International Froebel Society (IFS) and Canterbury Christ Church University invite academics and practitioners to submit proposals for the 6th Biennial Conference of the International Froebel Society. Bringing together individuals and groups who share interests in enhancing learning and development through play, the conference will feature a series of key note lectures, oral presentation, poster, discussion and workshop sessions. A practitioners’ conference will run in parallel at the same venue on the last day of the conference.
The conference invites examinations of play through different disciplinary lenses – sociological, psychological, anthropological, political and pedagogical. Topics include, but are not restricted to:
1. Promoting the child’s right to play: Child’s agency in games; Politics of play Risk and play; Patriarchy and play; Children and commodity culture.
2. Play culture in the changing world: Play, games and virtual worlds; Play in the classroom; Parent-child play interactions; Video games and violence.
3. History of children’s play:  Kindergarten play environments; Toys from the past; Froebel kindergarten Gifts; Girls and boys at play.
4. Therapeutic play: Play and emotional learning; Play therapy as a tool of diagnosis; Toys in play therapy; Play and well-being; Construction of identity through play.
5. Self-activity, Representation and Development: Free choice and free play; Symbolic imagination and creativity; Drama, visual art and literature; Play and narrative learning; Thinking and problem-solving; Learning through play.
6. Professionalism and identity: Pedagogy and challenges; The role of adults in children’s play; Community playwork practices; The rhetorics of adult; Play and playwork.
PROPOSALS: Please email abstracts to childhood.studies at canterbury.ac.uk<mailto:childhood.studies at canterbury.ac.uk>   by 10  May 2014. The abstract must include: title, name, affiliation, contact information of presenter/s, and abstracts (250 words).
KEY SPEAKERS
Dr David Whitebread (University of Cambridge); Professor Lydia Plowman (University of Edinburgh); Professor Tina Bruce CBE (University of Roehampton); Professor Helen May (University of Otago, New Zealand);  Associate Professor Nelleke Bakker (University  of Groningen).
Please visit www.canterbury.ac.uk/education/conferences<http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/education/conferences> for more details, and to book your place online.

Organising Committee

of the 6th Biennial Conference of the International Froebel Society


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