Memories of and reflections on play: playing from sunrise to sunset

"Memories of and reflections on play: playing from sunrise to sunset." International Journal of Play, 12(4), pp. 511–512

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1 A township is a low-income residential area in South Africa, historically designated for Black families, located on the outskirts of the city.

2 Play clothes were usually worn only during play. They were old, worn out, tattered clothes that could not worn anywhere else but during play.

3 uQithi loosely means – to jump off a tree. It is played by a group of participants who try to catch each other from a tree. Participants climb as high as they can escaping being caught. The player caught has to take the turn to catch others on the tree.

4 uDonkey is a tennis game that requires players to choose a number. If a player is hit with the tennis, their number is written next to each alphabet of donkey. When your number has been written next to all alphabets of the word donkey, that player is out of the game.

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Nosipho Mbatha

Nosipho Mbatha is an early career academic in the Creative Arts discipline at the School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her doctoral project researches the integration of playful pedagogy for learning at higher education, for teacher-educators and preservice teachers. She has published in national and international peer-reviewed journals in collaboration with other emerging scholars. Their collective research uses arts-based self-reflexive methodologies to understand themselves better as academics and improving their professional practice.