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10th Anniversary – Special Compilation Issue - January 2022

Created 15 Feb 2022| Updated 20 May 2022 | 17 articles

Welcome to the International Journal of Play 10th Anniversary Special Collection Issue! The editors are happy to present a curated international selection ranging in date from 2016-2021. We are fortunate to have so many quality submissions to our journal that choosing was no easy feat. Know that we are honored to work with all of you and look forward to playing with play theory and research for many years to come.

Edited by

Ana Beresin(University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA)

Fraser Brown(Leeds Beckett University, UK)

Michael Patte(Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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The state of play for the human species
Chris Bateman

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 6, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2017)

Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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A walk to remember – 21 July 1969
Michael M. Patte

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 7, Number: 2 (04 May 2018)

Published online: 12 Jul 2018
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A personal perspective on the work of Jaak Panksepp
Stuart Brown

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 9, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2020) The Neuroscience of Play: Honoring the Life’s Work of Jaak Panksepp

Published online: 23 Mar 2020
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Play with homeless and low-income preschoolers: university student experiences with service learning
Evangeline E. Nwokah, Stefanie Becerril, Weldon P. Hardee & Evelyn Brito

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 6, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2017)

Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Brian Sutton-Smith memorial panel – a celebration of the life and works of Brian Sutton-Smith
Fraser Brown, Anna Beresin, Tom Henricks, Alice Meckley & Michael Patte

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 6, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2017)

Published online: 14 Feb 2017
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Weechi metuwe mitotan: playing games of presence with Indigenous youth in Saskatchewan, Canada
Warren Linds, Megan Hyslop, Linda Goulet & Victor Eduardo Jasso Juárez

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 7, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2018)

Published online: 20 Feb 2018
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‘We're doing a wedding’: producing peer cultures in pretend play
Helen Breathnach, Susan Danby & Lyndal O’Gorman

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 7, Number: 3 (02 Sep 2018)

Published online: 22 Oct 2018
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Why are the children not outdoors? Factors supporting and hindering outdoor play in Greek public day-care centres
Dimitra Elida Kalpogianni

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 8, Number: 2 (04 May 2019)

Published online: 24 Jul 2019
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Introducing the Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) Research Centre
Vicky Yiran Zhao, Krishna Kulkarni, Jenny Gibson, Sara Baker & Paul G. Ramchandani

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 8, Number: 3 (02 Sep 2019)

Published online: 19 Nov 2019
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Yes, we need a neuroscience of play
Phillips Stevens Jr.

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 9, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2020) The Neuroscience of Play: Honoring the Life’s Work of Jaak Panksepp

Published online: 09 Feb 2020
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Playing bus in a bus – children transforming spaces within a mobile preschool into resources in place-making fantasy play
Carina Berkhuizen

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 9, Number: 2 (02 Apr 2020)

Published online: 22 Jun 2020
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Inclusive playgrounds: concerted efforts for children with disabilities in Saudi Arabia
Aeshah Alsarawi

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 9, Number: 4 (01 Oct 2020)

Published online: 30 Nov 2020
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Rehearsing for the future: play, place and art
Nina Luostarinen & Anthony Schrag

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 10, Number: 2 (03 Apr 2021) The Play Scholarship of Yrjö Hirn

Published online: 09 Jun 2021
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Child life in colonial days and Honeysuckle skipping: The plant lore of childhood
Elizabeth Tucker

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 7, Number: 3 (02 Sep 2018)

Published online: 22 Oct 2018
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Questioning play: what play can tell us about human life
William J. Morgan

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 6, Number: 2 (04 May 2017)

Published online: 19 Jun 2017
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Upstream
Sylwyn Guilbaud

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 7, Number: 2 (04 May 2018)

Published online: 31 Jul 2018
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Everyday Playfulness: a new approach to children’s play and adult responses to it
edited by Stuart Lester, Jeremy Lester and Wendy Russell, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019, 256 pp., £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 13 9781785920646
Geraldine Harris

Originally published in International Journal of Play, Volume: 11, Number: 3 (03 Jul 2022)

Published online: 01 Jun 2021
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