The Journal of Play in Adulthood 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.
Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2021 • The Playful Academic
Special Issue, The Playful Academic.
Editors: Rikke Toft Nørgård (Guest Editor), Alex Moseley (Guest Editor)
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The Playful Academic
Rikke Toft Nørgård and Alex Moseley
Play in research? Yes, it is “proper” practice
Alison James
Education as Framed Sense-Making
Hasse Møller and Signe Smedegaard Skov
From What Is to What If to Let’s Try: a Treasure-Box for the Playful Academic
Annika Lübbert , Katrin Heimann and Pedro Gonzàlez-Fernàndez
Integrating play based approaches into nursing education: Teachers as playful academics
Belinda Jane Dean and Judi A Parson
Toward a critical theory of playful research in the internet age
Jeremy Hunsinger
The Well-Being of Play in Academia
Bill Michael Linde