Cultural Historical Research SIG Business Meeting

Session Submission Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

Play is a critical life activity in leading learning and development across the lifespan, yet play has become a neglected even denigrated aspect of education. In this session, we revisit play as the foundation for action in education. Our panel takes up the challenge to the current convention of cookie cutter curriculum and advocates, instead, for the recognition and restoration of play in the ways we teach, learn and live. Mike Askew, Kings College; Jaime E. Martinez, East Side Institute; Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood; Bonny L. Gildin, All Stars Project; Carrie L. Lobman, Rutgers University; Artin Goncu, University of Illinois - Chicago.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Cultural-Historical Research

Chair

• Lois Holzman, East Side Institute

Participants

• Carrie L. Lobman, Rutgers University

• Artin Goncu, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Mike Askew, Monash University

• Jaime E. Martinez, New York Institute of Technology

• Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood

• Bonny L. Gildin, All Stars Project Inc.

Papers

• Imaginative Play as a Life-Span, Cultural Activity - Luke Perone, University of Washington - Tacoma