Evolution of Playground Games - page 8
Keywords: Playground, Games, Playground Games, Folklore, Childhood, Play, School, Child's Play
By elliot5200 on 18/02/2007
Level: Bachelor Honours Degree (BA, BEng, BSc etc)
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could in fact have an inverse effect and children could find themselves with nothing to do in the playground, leading to an increase in bullying. Moreover, learning through play is restricted for children who are in schools where playground games are banned and the social skills the playground games would have taught them would have to be obtained elsewhere.
According to Trubshaw (2002: 138), many of the games described by Gomme in her pioneering study, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland (1894, 1898) had died out by 1969 when Iona and Peter Opie wrote Children’s Games in the Street and Playground. Although the findings of this essay have not demonstrated that the games the Opies gathered have now died out, the games have clearly evolved considerably from their origins. Despite this, the results are not completely in line with the hypothesis, which predicted that the games studied would have become more violent in recent years as many are also evolving to become much calmer. However, many games are slowly beginning to face the danger of extinction due to the growing influence of media and developing technology on children’s play and the banning of playground games in schools.
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Opie, Iona and Peter 1984. Children’s Games in the Street and Playground. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Trubshaw, Bob 2002. Explore Folklore. Loughborough: Explore Press
Sutton-Smith, Brian 1959. ‘A Formal Analysis of Game Meaning’ Western Folklore: 21
Stokes, Paul 2005. School Bans ‘Too Rough’ Games
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/26/nplay26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/26/ixhome.html accessed on 11/12/06
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www.playgroundfun.org.uk accessed on 10/12/06
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