Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation [Kindle Edition]
Author: Patrick Bateson Paul Martin | Language: English | ISBN: B00D5RJDG2 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation
Posts about Download The Book Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion sheds new light on the links between creativity and innovation, distinguishing between the generation of novel behaviour and ideas on the one hand, and the implementation of these novelties on the other. The authors then turn to the role of play in the development of the child and to parallels between play, humour and dreaming, along with the altered states of consciousness generated by some psychoactive drugs. A final chapter looks forward to future research and to what remains to be discovered in this fascinating and important field. Direct download links available for Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation
Posts about Download The Book Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion sheds new light on the links between creativity and innovation, distinguishing between the generation of novel behaviour and ideas on the one hand, and the implementation of these novelties on the other. The authors then turn to the role of play in the development of the child and to parallels between play, humour and dreaming, along with the altered states of consciousness generated by some psychoactive drugs. A final chapter looks forward to future research and to what remains to be discovered in this fascinating and important field. Direct download links available for Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation
- File Size: 391 KB
- Print Length: 167 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1107015138
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 4, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D5RJDG2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #597,374 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Anyone who takes play seriously will want to take Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin's Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation just as seriously, at least. Not too seriously, because it is about play. Most importantly about a specific kind of play the authors call “playful play.” Playful play.
It is written with reliably academic integrity, dense with carefully researched references and scholarly inferences, carefully worded and crafted, and yet for those of us who have had glimpses of the profound importance of fun and games, play and playfulness, creativity and innovation, reading this book is fun, deeply fun.
For me, probably because I’ve spent at least 45 years contemplating the vicissitudes of play, and especially because I’ve just recently published a book of my own in which the very idea of playful play plays a, dare I say, pivotal role. The book is full of conceptual gifts - too many to itemize in this brief review. Here is a sampling:
On page 5, the authors write: "Play appears to provide its own reward, at least in the short term, by being intrinsically enjoyable. The general presumption has been that the more tangible biological benefits of play usually come later in the individual’s lifetime…” With that simple statement they explain that, contrary to many play apologists, we don’t play because it’s good for us or because we’ll learn from it or change because of it. We play, at heart, because it’s fun. And yet, in retrospect, the authors tell us that those apologists are correct. Play is chock full of tangible benefits - biological, social, physical, intellectual.
Riffle on to page 57 where the authors share with us an almost surgically concise definition of play and playfulness: "Play involves breaking rules.
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