Book Title: Why play works
Subtitle: Conceptual PlayWorlds inspiring learning, imagination and creativity in education
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Book Description: This textbook focuses on play and learning through Fleer's Conceptual PlayWorld. This evidence informed model helps teachers to plan innovative practices relevant for a range of discipline concepts. The teachers and children after reading/hearing a children’s book or nursery rhyme or fairytale jump into the story as characters from the book/story, go on adventures, meet challenges that they solve and return to the real world enriched, and excited to go back in for another adventure (potentially bringing with them things they have learned to enrich their play).
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The focus of this textbook is on play and learning through a Conceptual PlayWorld. This evidence informed model helps teachers to plan innovative practices relevant for a range of discipline concepts. The teachers and children after reading/hearing a children’s book or nursery rhyme or fairytale jump into the story as characters from the book/story, go on adventures, meet challenges that they solve and return to the real world enriched, and excited to go back in for another adventure (potentially bringing with them things they have learned to enrich their play). The 5 characteristics of planning for a Conceptual PlayWorld are: 1) Selecting a story, 2) Designing an imaginary play space; 3) Planning an exciting entry and entry into that space; 4) Planning a problem that the characters of the story (children in role) will meet and need to solve using concepts; 5) Planning the role of the adults in the imaginary play.
This evidence-informed model forms the foundation of each chapter in the book. Students will learn:
● what is a Conceptual PlayWorld
● the research that underpins a Conceptual PlayWorld
● how to plan and implement a Conceptual PlayWorld
● how to contextualise a Conceptual PlayWorld for specific ages, contexts and discipline content
● how to assess and make learning visible in a Conceptual PlayWorld
● to be leaders and innovators by designing creative and imaginative programs using a Conceptual PlayWorld model of pedagogical practice
● the utility of Conceptual PlayWorlds for creativity, imagination, and wellbeing.
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Why play works Copyright © 2024 by The authors of the work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Why play works Copyright © 2024 by The authors of the work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was published by Monash University via the Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/why-play-works.
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Why Play Works: Conceptual PlayWorlds Inspiring Learning, Imagination and Creativity in Education by Marilyn Fleer, Kelly-Ann Allen, Ann Clerc-Georgy, Leigh Disney, Liang Li, Lara McKinley, Gloria Quinones, Prabhat Rai, Janet Scull & Anne Suryani is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 Licence by Monash University, except where otherwise noted.
Recommended citation: Fleer, M., Allen, K., Clerc-Georgy, A., Disney, L., Li, L., McKinley, L., Quinones, G., Rai, P., Scull, J. & Suryani, A. (2023). Why Play Works: Conceptual PlayWorlds Inspiring Learning, Imagination and Creativity in Education. Monash University. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/why-play-works.
Recommended attribution: Why Play Works: Conceptual PlayWorlds Inspiring Learning, Imagination and Creativity in Education by Fleer, M., Allen, K., Clerc-Georgy, A., Disney, L., Li, L., McKinley, L., Quinones, G., Rai, P., Scull, J. & Suryani, A. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Licence by Monash University.
Cover by Les Thomas, with illustration by Adriana Alvarez at alvarezcreative.com.au is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Licence.