Play Under Lockdown: Critical Perspectives on Children's Play in a Global Pandemic

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Three critical qualitative research teams from two countries share observations and analysis of play experiences in the time after COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. Together, they resituate the conversation on play, including how adults and the media discuss play. Through detailed noticings of play, the authors share global perspectives of play in a pandemic to showcase how play is an intellectual and creative act that children use to make (sense of) social worlds.

Content Area

• AREA 12. International Research on Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Cassie J. Brownell, University of Toronto-OISE

Discussant

• Haeny Yoon, Teachers College, Columbia University

Individual Presentations

• Chalk and Stone: Children Together Apart in Western Canada’s COVID Lockdown - Kim Lenters, University of Calgary; Jana Boschee Ellefson, University of Calgary

• Digital Play in Australian Homes During COVID-19: The Imagined and The Reality - Lisa Kervin, University of Wollongong; Kate Lewis, University of Wollongong

• Navigating Play in a Pandemic: Examining Children’s Outdoor Neighborhood Play Experiences in Canada - Cassie J. Brownell, University of Toronto-OISE