Summary: The 18th conference of the International Play Association offers four days to share evidence, experience and examples of good practice with colleagues from around the world to discuss how to create a future where playing is valued and a child's right to time, freedom, and safe environment for playing.
The conference will focus on three themes: Individual and Society, Environment and Space, and Society and Culture.
Play – Individual and Social
• Play and its contribution to adaptation, healing, resilience, risk-management, social wellbeing, emotional literacy and learning
• Play deprivation, bias and extremes – the effects on children of having no opportunity to play, or only being able to play in a very limited or extreme way and how these effects might be overcome
• Play and identity
• Play and the playwork approach
• Play and the reflective practitioner
Play – Environment and Space - indoor, outdoor, virtual, urban or rural
• The environment, space and time within which playing occurs – is promoted or inhibited – whether planned by adults or not
• Providing environments where children and young people can create and manage risk and uncertainty
• The influence physical and emotional environments have on play
Play – Society and Culture
• Play and policy making
• Freedom to play and the structures of society and communities – social divisions, material divisions, mobility and inequality
• Play cultures and folklore
• Playing, ethnography and children’s geographies
• War, conflict and play
Call for abstracts and proposals
The international Play Association welcomes abstract proposals from disciplines and policy backgrounds that have an interest in, or an impact on, playing children and young people (i.e example, education, health, play provision, youth provision, play therapy, urban and landscape design and planning).
The IPA 2011 Programme Advisory Group invites the submission of abstracts and proposals under the conference themes for:
• Paper presentations at workshop sessions (30 minutes)
• Paper presentations to the full conference (30 minutes)
• Workshops (one hour including delegate participation)
• Symposia (90 minutes, groups presenting on a chosen theme with delegate participation)
• Poster presentations and non commercial exhibitions, including mobile play provision to be exhibited in the conference venue car park
• Film presentations
The language of IPA world conferences is English, however, Play Wales is committed to supporting Welsh speakers to present papers or workshops in their own language. Contributions from non-IPA members are welcome.
The deadline for submissions to IPA is 10 November 2011 – abstracts and proposals will be peer reviewed by the Programme Advisory Group.
Important dates
Registration – from 1 September 2010
Deadline for abstracts and proposals – 10 November 2010
Further information
Owner: IPApdf: http://www.ipa2011.org/home