Exploratory Play Research

I’m reading The Ambiguity of Play by Brian Sutton-Smith this week. Sutton-Smith describes 7 rhetorics of play. The predominant modern rhetoric is described as “play as progress,” where children’s play (and notedly not typically adult play) is...

Research Questions

The following are questions I’ve been grappling with as I begin to narrow my focus for my M.A. Thesis research: 1. What are the socially defined boundaries between “work” and “play”? How can aspects of “play” and...