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Recess Battles (Hardback)
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Short Description for Recess BattlesAn unforgettable exploration of the critical role of play and the gap in perception between adults and children As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, Recess Battles is a movin...
Full description- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Published: 01 December 2010
- Format: Hardback 182 pages
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- Categories: Age Groups: Children | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Child & Developmental Psychology | Primary & Middle Schools | Teaching Skills & Techniques
- ISBN 13: 9781604737394 ISBN 10: 1604737395
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Full description for Recess Battles
An unforgettable exploration of the critical role of play and the gap in perception between adults and children As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, Recess Battles is a moving reflection of urban childhood at the turn of the millennium. The book debunks myths about recess violence and challenges the notion that schoolyard play is a waste of time. The author videotaped and recorded children of the Mill School in Philadelphia from 1991 to 2004 and asked them to offer comments as they watched themselves at play. These sessions raise questions about adult power and the changing frames of class, race, ethnicity, and gender. The grownups' clear misunderstanding of the complexity of children's play is contrasted with the richness of the children's folk traditions. Recess Battles is an ethnographic study of lighthearted games, a celebratory presentation of children's folklore and its conflicts, and a philosophical text concerning the ironies of everyday childhood. Rooted in video micro-ethnography and the traditions of theorists such as Bourdieu, Willis, and Bateson, Recess Battles is written for a lay audience with extensive academic footnotes. Folklorist Brian Sutton-Smith contributes a foreword, and the children themselves illustrate the text with black and white paintings. Anna R. Beresin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of liberal arts at the University of the Arts. She has contributed articles to several books, including The Cultural Shaping of Violence and Children's Folklore: A Source Book. Her articles have also appeared in the journals Anthropology and Education Quarterly and Children's Folklore Review.
