Playwork in Practice: Applying the Playwork Lens Across the Children’s Workforce

＂Playwork in Practice introduces the ways that playwork can be used across the children’s workforce, including carers, qualified playworkers, parents and other adults. The chapters focus on the following areas where the playwork approach can be applied: behaviour, adult expectations, relationships and inclusion, space, environment and outdoors, age, risk, and resilience, emotions and resilience, health, well-being and gender. Using a reflexive reflective approach, the book offers vivid descriptions of interactions between children and adults in a range of different circumstances and analyses these interactions critically＂--

Ali Wood is a freelance playwork consultant. She is a director of The Play Resource Company and a trustee of Meriden Adventure Playground and The Playwork Foundation. She is co-author, with Jacky Kilvington, of Reflective Playwork (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Gender, Sex and Children’s Play (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Julia Sexton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Jacky Kilvington is a freelance playwork consultant and has designed, delivered, written and assessed material for many of the national playwork qualification providers and others. She is co-author, with Ali Wood, of Reflective Playwork (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Gender, Sex and Children’s Play (Bloomsbury, 2016).