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Investigating Play in the 21st
Century: Play & Culture Studies,
Volume 7
Dorothy Justus Sluss and Olga S. Jarrett,
eds.
Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 2007. Foreword, tables, figures,
references, index. 324 pp. $39.95 paper.
ISBN: 9780761836407
by Ann Marie Guilmette
[First Paragraph]
The Association for the Study of Play
(TASP) is a multidisciplinary organization
that focuses on play studies. It consists of
anthropologists, educators, folklorists,
musicologists, scientists, psychologists,
kinesiologists, and historians, and its
members meet annually to discuss and
disseminate scholarly investigations on
the importance of play. Since 1998, TASP
has published Play & Culture Studies, a
scholarly journal on the topic of play, and
Dorothy Justus Sluss and Olga Jarrett, coeditors
of volume seven, have produced
an exceptional issue. This publication not
only has something for everyone (academics,
educators, parents, communities,
agencies, and players) but the practical
and theoretical contributions are timely,
informative, and sometimes fundamental.
Not since Albert Ellis (1973) have so many
models for explaining play's role been represented
in one publication. |
