'This is our treehouse': Investigating play through a practice architectures lens. (May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaukko, Mervi; Wilkinson, Jane; Haswell, Nick
• Is Part Of: Childhood. Volume 29:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 187
• Page End: 203
• Publication Date: 2022-05
• Subjects: practice architectures -- free play -- video -- practice theory -- praxiography -- lifespan of practices; Children -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Children -- Research -- Periodicals; 305.23
• DOI: 10.1177/09075682221091419
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0907-5682

Abstract

This article explores a child-led project of building a treehouse through the theory of practice architectures. It draws on video data collected by 13 children wearing microcameras (GoPro) in a multicultural Australian primary school. The data was co-analysed with the children. The article illuminates how play practices emerge, diffuse, persist and/or disappear with time. This knowledge is needed to understand the different facets of free play and build enabling conditions for its unfolding.