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Showing 1 to 20 of 18563 for “"Play"”.
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Play Therapist's Perspectives on Culturally Sensitive Play Therapy
<p>The Association for Play Therapy (2009) promotes play therapists’ awareness of personal cultural identity, obtaining continuous cultural knowledge, and displaying culturally appropriate practices. Play therapy research includes studies on working with specific culturally diverse populations. …
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Play-ground
… rubber-stamped landscape strategies of municipal playgrounds found in urban America and the rubber-stamping strategies of big-box retail which are disseminated throughout the American suburban landscape, this thesis attempts to recover the surface parking lot by equating park and parking in a …
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Magnificient Play
… used in this project to bring forms in to a play of light and shadow. The building's program is dedicated to the preservation of black and white film: an expressive medium that exists, primarily, as a cultural artifact in the collective memory.
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Play Girl
Play Girl investigates the aesthetics of trans becoming through a lyric voice that is simultaneously theatrical, fragmented, and searching. Across its two movements, the collection charts a gendered metamorphosis that resists linearity or fixed resolution, instead unfolding through performance, …
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Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play
… a gratuitous act. [...] It is essentially ‘play.’” The aim of this dissertation is to examine Jones’s work in relation to the concept of playfulness. Although it makes the most of play’s various associations (pleasure, joyousness, games, children’s play), this dissertation uses the word to …
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African-American Parents' Perceptions of Play, Counseling, and Play Therapy
… about African American parents' perceptions of play, counseling, and play therapy. Research interviews conducted with eight African American parents with elementary school aged children offered insight regarding parents' thoughts and experiences. This study explored the question, "What are …
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Playing games together: play interventions for community and communal play
This thesis is concerned with play, particularly the role of social play in a co-located context and its ability to bring people together. Participation in social play can have significant effects on an individual, group, community and culture, and thus, through practice-based research, this thesis …
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Tension in Play
Tension in Play is a thesis paper detailing context and methodology surrounding my artwork from the past 2 years while pursing a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington. I recall specific memories from working within the service industry that act as the context to multiple artworks in …
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Exploring Play Attention
<p>The present study examined the Play Attention neurofeedback computer program to determine its efficacy in the classroom. A program that would increase students' ability to pay better attention in the classroom would vastly improve our entire educational system. The two areas that were used to …
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To Play or Not to Play: Non/Participation in Eve Online
… whereby investigations remain focused on current players and the experiences of former or non-players are rarely accounted for. Using EVE Online (EVE), a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) known for its difficult learning curve and homogenous community as a case study, I conducted an …
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Child's play : facilitating child development through play and interaction with plants
The representation of planting has been under- theorised in landscape architecture and has become a simple technical accompaniment to design rather than a vital part of the design process. Generally, planting design is left to the end of the project when it fills a previously generated plan …
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Play as the zone of proximal development: collaborative constructive block play
Based on Vygotsky's theoretical construct that play creates the zone of proximal development, this study was designed to examine the processes and outcomes involved in collaboration among dyads of 4-year-olds (matched for equal and unequal levels of play) in the context of constructive play with …
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Choice and compromise : decision-making by play park providers and its impact on play value in local play parks
Play parks are key spaces within children’s geographies; play a valued childhood activity which is facilitated and controlled by adults. The significance of outdoor play indicates a requirement for high-quality provision, delivering play value, challenge and risk. This PhD investigation aims to …
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Approach-iron play in high performance golf: From testing to tournament play
… shots and putting). Despite approach-iron play being considered perhaps the most important and definitely the most practiced skill in the game, the ability to quantify the golfer’s ability to hit approach-iron shots in a controlled, off-course environment (eg. training) cannot yet be …
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The Oberammergau passion play as a survival of the medieval miracle play
<p>The contributions of the Mediaeval Miracle Play to that of the Passion Play of Oberammergau are like those of a parent to a child. Life and form have been inherited but the development has gone far beyond the origin. Yet certain elements have continually been preserved in this same form and …
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Factors Associated with Play Therapists' Use of Family-Systems Play Therapy Interventions
… fifty-six (456) members of the Association for Play Therapy responded to the researcher-developed survey, the <em>Play Therapists' Decision-Making Inventory-Revised</em> (<em>PTDI-R</em>). The instrument assessed play therapists’ perceptions of the role of attachment in the treatment process, …
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Ground-play yard-school play-school : a Ludic typology for primary education
This thesis explores how free play can be promoted, incentivized, and enabled through architecture to reinterpret the elementary school typology within the urban context of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The project is not a playground, but it is not just a school either. It functions as …
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