6. Play types…
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• Interior/mental
• Collective/solitary
• Performative/interactive
• Contests
• Celebrations and festivals
• Dangerous/deep play
• Playful
Features
• Repetitive
• Exaggerated
• Reversed
• Unusual
• Attenuated
• Physical Prof Alison James NTF PFHEA University of Winchester
7. Common* tropes of play
• Spontaneous/Undertaken freely
• Fun/Rewarding
• Intrinsically motivated
• With no fixed goal
• Player is protected from consequences
• Indicates wellbeing/positive mood
• Enough in itself
• Other world/space
Prof Alison James NTF PFHEA University of Winchester
(*but not always the case in ‘educational play’)