Recess battles : playing, fighting, and storytelling / Anna R. Beresin ; foreword by Brian Sutton-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beresin, Anna R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School recess breaks.

Play--United States.

Play.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 168 p. :) ill., music

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tensions in an Urban American School Yard; PART 1. PLAYIN' AND FIGHTIN'; PART 2. THE PUSH AND PULL OF ADULT CULTURE; PART 3. PLAY AND CHILDREN'S CULTURE; Conclusion: Wrestling with the School Yard; Postscript: Screaming Culture; APPENDIXES; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62103-665-0

1-282-96083-0

9786612960833

1-60473-740-9

OCLC:

695994115