. play in a changing world - 17th International Play Association World Confernce in Hong Kong 2008















8 January 2008

  • Play Policies and children's rights
  • Play and Human Development
  • Play and Resilience
  • Play and Human Development
  • Creativity in Play
  • Playwork Development
  • 9 January 2008

  • Play and Health
  • Play in Living Environment
  • Play in School
  • Play and Technology
  • Cultural Diversity and Play
  • Playwork Development
  • Play and Toys
  • Innovations in Play
  • Intergenerational Play
  • Play and resilience
  • Play Facilities and Environment
  • 10 January 2008

  • Play in Living Environments
  • Play and Safety
  • Play Facilities and Environment
  • Play and Technology
  • Play in School
  • Play and Social Inclusion
  • Creativity in Play
  • Play and Toys
  • As at 5 November 2007, the accepted presentation titles are as follows:
    (Remarks: The final availability of the following presentations will be made subject to the confirmed registration of the presenters to the conference).

    Play Policies and children’s rights

  • The Work by IPA for Child’s Right to Play in Sweden
  • THE CHILD’S RIGHT TO PLAY: THE RIGHT TO BE A CHILD
  • The Value of Play: Constructions of Play in England’s National Policies
  • Managing public playgrounds — Strategies and feelings
  • Partnerships for play in capital cities
  • THE POLITICS OF PLAY
  • Play England: prioritising play, locally and nationally
  • Child’s Play and Child’s Right to Play in Changing Society
  • Children’s Right to Play
  • European Network Child Friendly Cities, an international network to improve
  • child friendly environments in the local communities
  • Play and Human Development

  • Organised Sport for Children & Pre-Adolescents "Foo"ToT’lers’ Soccer programme by Project Leaders
  • The role of playing technologies in teaching foreign languages
  • Play and Real Fight in the school playground: Why they do it (in their words)
  • The Changing Face of Children’s Play Culture — A Call for Action
  • Evidence based approaches to teen play needs
  • Planning before action: A study on Chinese radicals assembling game
  • Play and Human Development
  • Play, environment and affordances
  • The relationship between the physical environment and preschool children’s learning
  • Exploring A Hundred Languages with Young Children through Play
  • Curriculum as Play-The Study of Sensorial Integration Curriculum in An Infant Center
  • Metacommunication of Preschool Children during their Collaborative Pretend Play
  • Baby Play and Baby Playgroups
  • Adventure Playgrounds — Play, a Lesson for Child’s Life
  • The Role of Play and the Visual Arts in Crafting Developmentally-Appropriate Science Experiences for
  • Designing Playgrounds to Effect Brain Development
  • Playing with Concept Words
  • Play MADly in English learning
  • Learning through Play
  • Play and Human Development

    Play and Health

  • Evidence based approaches in preschool playgrounds
  • The effectiveness of a multi-component play learning preschool health promotion program — DRAGON2006
  • Home-based Training through Play for Dyslexic Children
  • Therapeutic Play Intervention: Its Effectiveness and Appropriateness in Preparing Children for Surge
  • Survey on the Views of Nursing and Medical Staff in Public Hospital Paediatric Services towards the
  • 玩出健康—以遊戲促進幼童體能發展之探究
  • A REVIEW OF USING INTERNET WEBSITE, EMAIL AND SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES (SMS) TO PROMOTE HEALTH BEHAVIO

    Play and Technology

  • Computer games as virtual playgrounds
  • Play in Public TV (Argentina)
  • Late modern play culture
  • The Road to fun learning — Greenlandic children’s play-socialization in and outside Cyberspace
  • A Study on an Innovational Business Model for the Future Development of Electronic Pets
  • Fun Teaching and Learning of Computer Animation with Multiple Intelligent Approaches
  • Playing with Light and Sound: Designing Electronic Playstructure for Public Space

    Play and Resilience

  • A ‘Play-Love-Faith’ Learning Program for Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
  • Brighten up the Lives in Prison through Playing Toys
  • USING PLAY IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND COUNSELING OF TROUBLED AND SPECIAL CHILDREN
  • Play Behind Bars
  • The Exploration of Therapeutic Predicament of Play Therapists in Taiwan
  • Therapeutic Efficacy on Psychiatric Day-Ward Patients Attending Group Play Therapy
  • A Research on the Relationship between Physical Environment and Therapeutic Play for Children
  • Play in children with severe developmental disabilities
  • Therapeutic Play Activities for Hospitalized Children
  • Play Corner for Children Experiencing Anticipatory Grief in the In-patient Unit of Bradbury Hospice
  • Filial Therapy: the Challenges of Parents as the Therapeutic Agents for Children

    Play and Social Inclusion

    Play Around the World

  • Collaboration: The Key to the Success of the Finns Reserve Play Space
  • The Good Play Space Guide: "I Can Play Too"
  • Let’s Play Together: Collaborative Approaches to the Engagement of Hard-to-Reach Families through Playgroup
  • All Abilities Playgrounds in Queensland: realising the right of all children to have equal participa
  • Playing together more: a P.inc workshop
  • Supported Playgroups: Nurturing Children, Strengthening Families, Building Community
  • EU50 Playday

    Play and Safety

  • Popping the Bubblewrap: Unleashing the Power of Play
  • Research on benefits of risks on children’s playgrounds: a case study in Japan
  • Children need risk
  • Impact Attenuation in playground surfacing — The case for natural materials
  • Why and How is the Playground Safety Inspection done in Hong Kong?
  • Passing barriers: safety, body and design
  • Individual Differences in Children’s Risk Perception and Appraisals of Outdoor Play Environments

    Play and Toys

  • The Play therapy in extreme and daily practices of the children’s psychologist
  • The Experiential Marketing for Toy Retail Industry in Taiwan-- From Consumers’ Perspectives
  • 「兒童玩具圖書館」的故事
  • Public Provision of Toy Library Service in Hong Kong
  • Play quality & toys –Argentina’s Lab Toy Research

    Play in Living Environments

  • Children’s play and the role of youth work in a childfrienly environment
  • Cultivating a National Play Space Design ’Community of Practice’ in Canada
  • "It Takes A Child To Raise A Community" reflecting R. Hart’s Suggestion
  • Research on the Secret Base Playing in Japan
  • Developing a Child Friendly Village
  • Playgrounds in a user’s perspective — Challenges for playground management in a changing society
  • Play and learn in the Community
  • Changing nature of play: opportunities in children playgrounds and residential areas in the Turkish
  • The Child and the City
  • A Study of the Children’s Outdoor Play Behaviors in Residential Areas of Urban
  • The high-rise tendency of residence and the changing outdoor playing-By a case analysis of high-rise
  • DESIGNING FOR INCIDENTAL PLAY IN CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS:
  • Play, Nature, Community — Drawing a Play Map of Childhood
  • Children’s Outdoor Play Activities and Consciousness of Play Spaces in Chiayi, Taiwan
  • Children’s Voice @ Playright Playmobile in Hong Kong

    Play in School

  • Promoting Young Children’s Physical Fitness Through Physical Play
  • Physical and sensory development through play at school
  • Learning through Play and Keep Yourself Health — A School Health Model
  • USING PLAYTIME TO PROMOTE PUPIL’S SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
  • The Power of Games: Retooling the Paradigm of Middle School Teaching
  • Benefits of school grounds improvement from the viewpoint of pupils’ behaviour maps during playtime
  • Snug: A System of Loose Parts for Primary School Playgrounds
  • Playing the Waldorf Way
  • Playtime! — the impact of play in schools on children’s behaviour
  • Pillars of Society: Train the school-based game trainers
  • School Play: Integrating Learning and Play in Elementary School
  • Teaching and Learning of "Children’s Play" in a teacher-education program for primary school teacher
  • Integrated-Innovative Wall & Floor Games
  • Children’s Participation in School Play Environment Design

    Play Facilities and Environment

  • PLACES FOR PLAY — Playgrounds in Shanghai
  • Designing public play spaces — meeting needs or admissions of failure?
  • DESIGNING FOR PRESCHOOL PLAY
  • Schoolyard as Center of Community
  • Australian Primary School Playgrounds: Children’s Use of Playspace and Equipment
  • Sculptures for Play and Growth
  • Experimental Playgrounds
  • Natural Play Spaces: Contexts for Education for Sustainability in Australian Early Childhood Centres
  • State of Play in Australian Local Government
  • Creating Naturalistic Playspaces through Collaboration and Participation
  • The Ask Project: Consultation project on disabled and non-disabled children’s evaluation of public o
  • The relationship between the physical environment and preschool children’s learning
  • SPACE RIOT

    Playwork Development

  • Play Patrol in Australia
  • Playdays Promote the Child’s Right to Play
  • Every Child Matters in England: The Playwork Response
  • Sheltering playing: a study about recreational life between educators and children in a foster c
  • Growing Stronger Together
  • No Purpose But Play
  • To enrich children’s life through play in places with limited resources
  • Outcomes for Children: The Role of The Professional Playworker
  • Playwork Education and Training in England: the employer’s voice

    Creativity and Innovation in Play

  • The Case Study of LEGO® Playing for Promoting Children’s Creativity and Character
  • A preliminary study of creative teaching by Lego
  • Importance of Play with Sand for Children and a Trial of the Workshop of Play with Sand named "Playful Sand Art"
  • Traditional games, newly discovered
  • Towards a new creative world through music and movement in kindergarten
  • The Importance of Hopscotch

    Cutlural Diversity and Intergenerational play

  • Rights and freedom of the child in cultural playspace
  • Play Traditions of the modern childhood
  • Play and learning in Hong Kong and German Kindergartens
  • Is play useful to raise a basic self respect? The difference in influence of cultural context to rai
  • Cultural varieties in a playgroup: How mothers and children interact
  • Play Around the World: Fostering Global and Cultural Awareness
  • PLAY AT HOME — WANTED: PARENTS WHO ARE PLAYING GAMES WITH THEIR CHILDREN
  • NOT JUST PLAY — PLAYGROUP AS A TOOL TO ENGAGE INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES
  • Physical Activity Play and Independence of Mobility

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