HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Enculturation, Playground Games
30 Oct 2017
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Pleasurable activities freely engaged in by children; freedom from work; to act frivolously or capriciously. Uncrc article 31 recognises the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities". To huizinga (an early theorist of play), the term refers to activities that are outside of the ordinary run of everyday life. Huizinga also says that play has its own rules of engagement and comes to constitute a separate world apart from the humdrum everyday world. However, while such definitions are useful to describe play, they do not suffice: they are assumptions that stem from an adult perspective rather than from a child"s standpoint. It is difficult to provide a child-focused definition of play! From the perspective of child development: children are expected to learn through play. Play is regarded as a key part of children"s activities and an essential aspect of childhood: ex.
