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An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

“Why Can't They Just Stay?” A Critical Conversation and Membership Categorization Analysis of Racial Neoliberalism in English Language Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I analyze the co‐constitution of race and neoliberalism within the discourse of an English language classroom. Appealing to modernist/colonial histories of race and capital, I first examine how racial neoliberalism produces a normalized, unmarked subject‐position through the conflation of moral responsibility with human ...
Justin Lance Pannell
wiley   +1 more source

Unfreezing Disney’s Frozen through playful and intentional co-authoring/co-playing

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Education, 2016
Often children’s opportunities to play are constrained by particular interpretations of play that instrumentalize its value in the service of adult-defined, future-oriented goals for children.
Jane Hewes   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
wiley   +1 more source

Primary goitrous hypothyroidism in a young adult domestic longhair cat: diagnosis and treatment monitoring

open access: yesJournal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2015
Case summary Primary goitrous hypothyroidism was diagnosed in a 12-month-old cat examined because of small stature, mental dullness, severe lethargy, generalized weakness and gait abnormalities.
Mark E Peterson
doaj   +1 more source

Learner Agency and the Negotiation of EFL Motivation in GenAI‐Mediated Drama‐Based Learning: A Qualitative Case Study

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping language learning environments, yet little is known about how it becomes embedded within learners' motivational and agentive experiences in collaborative, informal settings like English drama‐based learning.
Meng Xiong, Timothy Teo
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Right to Play

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2018
Exploring play in the U.S. reveals adult ambivalence about play, the dominance of competitive consumerism in this sphere of children’s lives, and structural injustices that impact who plays and who is left out.
Mary M. Doyle Roche
doaj  

Challenging Business Schools Through Subversive Performativity: The Potential of Art‐based Pedagogies

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
Sylvain Bureau   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Cutting Edges to the Cutting Edge: Knowing and Theorizing Through Collage Inquiry

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by ongoing debates about the need for more novel and pluralistic management research, this paper explores the different ways of researching, knowing and theorizing emerging from the arts‐based method of collage inquiry. We used a problematizing approach to examine how collage inquiry has been used in management research and ...
Georgia Stavraki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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