This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by STRANDELL, H. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Doing Reality With Play

Play as a Children's Resource in Organizing Everyday Life in Daycare Centres

University of Helsinki, Finland harriet.strandell{at}helsinki.fi

This article presents results from an ethnographic study on children's everyday life in Finnish daycare centres. It raises the question of the relation between play and real life. Play and playfulness are analysed as communicative resources children use in creating and reproducing everyday routines, not only inside play activities, but also in other kinds of situations occurring during an ordinary day. The free-floating social interaction of the centre constitutes the context of play. Play is not a separate children's world; by using play children also intrude on adult order and on the power of adults over children.

Key Words: children • daycare centre • ethnography • everyday life • play

Childhood, Vol. 4, No. 4, 445-464 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0907568297004004005


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				K. Kullman Enacting Traffic Spaces Space and Culture, May 1, 2009; 12(2): 205 - 217. [Abstract] [PDF]

				M. Buchbinder, J. Longhofer, T. Barrett, P. Lawson, and J. Floersch ethnographic approaches to child care research: a review of the literature Journal of Early Childhood Research, February 1, 2006; 4(1): 45 - 63. [Abstract] [PDF]