Playing with Words: an exploration of ludic terms and the linguistic permeation of play in a cultural context

Bayliss, Alice

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“…In their writing is a marked lack of words like discipline, focus, and restraint. Like the Cooper's hawk I have been communing with this spring on Mont Royal, this "dangerous" (Bayliss, 1999) deep play can take us for a ride in its talons as we merge into the experiencing, living moment.…”

Section: Journal Of Childhood Studies Articles From Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, I am learning that giving voice to my exuberant, contradictory, and sometimes foolish emotional life and path takes much less energy than trying to control it; it centers and relaxes me. Bayliss (1999) …”

Section: Journal Of Childhood Studies Articles From Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The modern onset of industry created a separation between work and leisure, and that leisure/play has become liminoid, perhaps more free than the obligatory rituals of the past, but also more commodified. Other theorists say that play is in the spirit of maya-lila, a primordial performative-creative act of continuous playing, a multitude of changing realities of Divine order (Bayliss, 1999;Huizinga, 1950;Nachmanovitch, 1990;Sutton-Smith, 1997), and that to separate jest and earnestness "frustrates both" (Ardley, 1967, p. 231). Winnicott (1971) writes that when we live creatively, we see life as infused with potential.…”

Section: Journal Of Childhood Studies Articles From Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Everyone is watching! After a time of bare feet on ground, drum vibration, cow bell ting ti-ting ti-ti-ti ting, and the warm sun on my face, I felt a shift to a kind of not-feeling-not-thinking-both-and, a kind of tap-in to the play instinct of movement, action, and body consciousness (Bayliss, 1999;Nachmanovitch, 1990). I started to goof around in my dance, arms wide up and around, flamenco moves, spinning around, my face got into it, my hands, my knees.…”

Section: Entre Tus Hojas Como Suave Guiso Crecieron Nuestros Graves Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the readings, I've learned that play comes from divine Source (Ardley, 1967), leads to creative living potential (Winnicott, 1971), and connects us with Source self (Johnson, n.d.) as an essential human function and evolutionary value (Bayliss, 1999;Nachmanovitch, 1990). I also learned about different frames of play, particularly the tension (Carse, 1986) between finite play as temporally and spatially defined (Bateson & Martin, 2013;Caillois, 1961) and infinite play as infused, ongoing…”

Section: Journal Of Childhood Studies Articles From Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Clown and Fool as Voice in Earth Activism

Hyslop¹

2017

J Child. Stud.

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<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>How can the human relationship with the other-than-human be reenvisioned as neither destructive nor redemptive but as dynamic and playful? I explore ways that the archetype and practice of the fool and theatrical clowning could highlight this fundamental connection. This autoethnographic performative study draws on the work of such play theorists as Huizinga, Carse, Nachmanovitch, Winnicott, Bateson and Martin, Ackerman, and leadership visionary Wheatley. It is a dance between stories and literature that gives examples of play as a way to navigate and imagine a heart, mind, and body engagement with community. </span></p></div></div></div></div>

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Section: Journal Of Childhood Studies Articles From Researchmentioning

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Hyslop¹

2017

J Child. Stud.

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Liminality in education: generating a creative space of encounter and dialogue between teachers and students within educational structures

Lorenzi

White

2019

Pastoral Care in Education

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Countering Discourses of Derision: Moving towards Action in Teacher Education in the USA and Sweden

2023

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This article is about how negative discourses of teacher education position teacher educators and how they might influence or inspire action. We use self-study methods to investigate the political dimension of teacher education in two national contexts: Sweden and the USA. More specifically, we examine the emotions stirred by the positioning related to being a teacher educator and how those emotions can be used to take a line to and resist boundaries that limit us within the profession in the two contexts. We aim to contribute to the self-study field by emphasizing a political dimension, in addition to the personal and professional dimensions of teacher education more often studied by scholars. Using the concepts of positionality, emotions, liminality, and action, we conclude that the liminal spaces offered us time to think about the emotions we have experienced due to the derisive discourses that position us in negative ways as teacher educators, and with that thinking came opportunities to reflect on our identity as teacher educators and what we look to accomplish as teacher educators. A new understanding of liminality as a space of possibility has boosted us to take action. An important conclusion is that emotional labor can be a hindrance in relation to teacher educator action, while emotions can act as clues for opportunities of growth and action. Telling our stories opened space for us to use our emotions to take a line to and resist the derogatory discourse, engage in the political, and move closer to becoming teacher educator activists.

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Playing with Words: an exploration of ludic terms and the linguistic permeation of play in a cultural context

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Clown and Fool as Voice in Earth Activism

Clown and Fool as Voice in Earth Activism

Liminality in education: generating a creative space of encounter and dialogue between teachers and students within educational structures

Countering Discourses of Derision: Moving towards Action in Teacher Education in the USA and Sweden

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