Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures (Routledge Research in Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415807875 ISBN 13: 9780415807876

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies.

The chapters in this book were contributed by an international range of respected researchers, who seek to extend our understandings of children's interactions with new media both within and outside of school. They address and provide evidence for continuing debates around the following questions: What notions of creativity are useful in our fields? How does an understanding of play inform analysis of children's engagement with digital cultures? How might school practice take account of out-of-school learning in relation to digital cultures? How can we understand children's engagements with digital technologies in commercialised spaces?

Offering current research, theoretical debate and empirical studies, this intriguing text will challenge the thinking of scholars and teachers alike as it explores the evolving nature of play within the media landscape of the 21st-century.

About this title

About the Author

Rebekah Willett is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she teaches on the MA in Culture, Language and Communication.

Muriel Robinson is Principal and Professor of Digital Literacies at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln.

Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she directs the EdD.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415807875
• ISBN 13: 9780415807876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Willett Rebekah, Robinson Muriel, Marsh Jackie