Research through Play

Part I: Founding Principles to Playful Research Approaches Chapter 1: Framing and Defining Play in Early Childhood - Elizabeth Wood & Liz Chesworth Chapter 2: Young Children's Play, Voices and Rights in Research - Jane Murray Chapter 3: Ethical considerations: Play for fun and play for data collection - Sue Dockett Part II: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks for Playful Research Chapter 4: Practitioner-enquiry: A Reflexive Method for Playful Pedagogy - Kate Wall, Lorna Arnott & Elaine Hall Chapter 5: Pedagogical Documentation as a Thinking Companion - Alma Fleet & Jane Merewether Chapter 6: Analysing and Interpreting Data from Research with Young Children: Faithfulness, Integrity and Trustworthiness in Eliciting Meaning - Cathy Nutbrown Part III: Adapting Play-based Pedagogies as a Research Method Chapter 7: Approaches to informed consent with young children - Lorna Arnott, Kate Wall, Loreain Martinez, Caralyn Blaisdell & Shannon Ludgate Chapter 8: Using drawing as a playful research encounter with young children - Pauline Duncan Chapter 9: Observing and interpreting embodied interactions: Interpreting Voice from Birth to 3 years - Lorna Arnott, Jonathan Delafield-Butt & Timothy J McGowen Chapter 10: The use of pedagogical documentation and artistic languages in research with young children - Ioanna Palaiologou, Elisabetta Biffi & Franca Zuccoli Chapter 11: Frame, explain and theorise: Using an App as a tool to interpret imaginary play with children and teachers - Marilyn Fleer Chapter 12: Using playful methods to understand children's digital literacies - Pekka Mertala Part IV: Research Resources from Early Childhood Education Introduction to Part IV - Kate Wall & Lorna Arnott Project 1 : Facilitating voice with our youngest children - Rhona Matheson, Starcatchers Project 2: Being an Investigator in Our Learning Environment - Heidi Sairanen Research Proposal 1: Investigating the perceptions of young children in school-based pretend play - Triona Stokes Research Proposal 2: Playing and Being, Here and Now: adults using improvisation to join children aged 0 - 5 in free-play - Maddie Broad