| Popis: |
This chapter uses observation and semi-structured interviews to explores the everyday practices, habits and routines of playworkers in an afterschool club in the northwest of England and how these help shape children’s experiences within the setting. Of key interest is the relationship between espoused playwork intentions for the design of a play environment and what happens in practice. The chapter draws on a number of interrelated concepts drawn from the field of children’s geographies that suggest spaces are not fixed containers for action or a background against which humans carry out their interactions, but are actively produced by the ongoing encounters between adults, children, materials, movements, affects, imaginations and so on. While spaces are always in the process of being produced and are open to all sorts of possibilities, they are also imbued with power relationships, and dominant forces have considerable influence in shaping the possible movements and encounters within the setting. The intention here was to pay closer attention to these entanglements and how they produce environments that might be more or less open to moments of play emerging. |
