The Journal of Play in Adulthood (ISSN: 2632-1254) aims to provide a multidisciplinary open access forum dedicated to the discussion of play and playfulness in adults. The focus of this journal is on play in adulthood to explicitly distinguish it from children’s play, and to highlight that the motivations, contexts, and forms of play are, in many cases, different. It aims to increase understanding of the need for, and benefits of, play and playfulness after childhood, and to create a robust evidence base for the value of play throughout the life course for learning, working, and living well. It also seeks to explore the barriers to the use of play with adults, and potential solutions to increasing the role of play in lifelong education, the workplace, and wider society.
The target readership of this journal is both practitioners and researchers involved in the use of, and study of, play and playfulness with adults. Readers may be from a range of sectors and academic traditions, as befits the multidisciplinary nature of play and playfulness research.
Open issue for Autumn 2023
Kathy Lubbers, Jeanne Cadwallader, Qiyang Lin, Christopher Clifford and Leslie D. Frazier
2023-11-27 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2023 • 1-19
Lisa Kosena Forbes and Carissa Craven
2023-11-28 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2023 • 20-32
Laura Martin, Andrea Louise Kavanagh and Andrea Louise Kavanagh
2023-12-04 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2023 • 33-69
From What Is to What If to Let’s Try: a Treasure-Box for the Playful Academic
Annika Lübbert, Katrin Heimann, Pedro Gonzàlez-Fernàndez