Copyright

Beresin, Anna; Bishop, Julia;

Published On

2023-06-01

Page Range

pp. xix–xxxii

Language

  • English

Print Length

14 pages

Keywords

  • pandemic
  • play
  • interaction
  • emergent theme
  • play activity
  • isolation
  • children
  • youth
  • adults
  • quarantine
  • 2020-2021
  • researchers
  • practitioners
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • England
  • Finland
  • Ireland
  • Japan
  • Scotland
  • Serbia
  • Sudan
  • South Korea
  • United States
  • Wales
  • cultures
  • social classes
  • speech communities
  • chapters
  • Landscapes
  • Portraits
  • Shifting Frames

Introduction

Chapter of: Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation(pp. xix–xxxii)
How has the pandemic shaped play, both as a frame for interaction and as an emergent theme during play activity? Central to the book is the exploration of isolation among children, youth and adults during the phases of quarantine in 2020-2021. The authors are researchers and practitioners in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Scotland, Serbia, Sudan, South Korea, the United States and Wales. Cultures studied include families in different social classes and different speech communities. The chapters are introduced through their sections: Landscapes, Portraits, and Shifting Frames.

Contributors

Anna Beresin

(author)
https://www.uarts.edu/staff-directory/aberesin

Anna Beresin, PhD, serves as professor of psychology and folklore at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-edits the International Journal of Play and studies children’s folklore, primate physical play, language play and the connections between play, culture and art. Her books include The Character of Play (2019), The Art of Play: Recess and the Practice of Invention (2014), and Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling (2010). She co-authored Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation with Brigitta Herrmann, Manfred Fischbeck, and Elia Sinaico (2018). Visit her at www.annaberesin.com.

Julia Bishop

(author)
Research Associate at University of Sheffield
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-9715
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/julia-bishop

Julia Bishop is research associate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK with a PhD in folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has documented play and social inclusion, playground games and songs in the new media age, digital play in the early years, memories and experiences of play, and play during the Covid-19 pandemic. Julia is co-chair of the British Academy research project Childhoods and Play: The Opie Archive (www.opiearchive.org), and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play. Her publications include contributions to Play Today in the Primary School Playground (2001), Children, Media and Playground Cultures (2013), Children’s Games in the New Media Age (2014), Changing Play (2014), and The Lifework and Legacy of Iona and Peter Opie (2019).