Disrupting Play Stories: Exploring Play Positionality (Poster 28)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Early Education and Child Development: Poster Session 2

Abstract

The purpose of a 2019 narrative study titled “Play then and now: a narrative study of early childhood teachers’ play histories and practices” (Author, 2019), was to uncover and describe the ways in which the reflective practice of creating a personal play history informs facilitation of, provision for, and perceptions of play in the classroom. This exploratory paper turns the results of this study on its head, to look critically at how a history with play and play memory could create biases in teaching. This paper proposes the possibility that a personal relationship with play could have an impact on the ways in which teachers view the play in their classrooms; particularly when observing the play of marginalized students.

Author

• Katelyn Clark, SUNY - College at New Paltz