Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation Hardcover – August 26, 2013
Author: Patrick Bateson | Language: English | ISBN: 1107015138 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation – August 26, 2013
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Review
"In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin show how play helps animals to find novel solutions and sows the evolutionary seeds for human creativity. They argue that being able to 'break the rules' in a protected environment, which is what play does, generates new ideas (creativity) and new ways of doing things (innovation). By looking at the conditions in which humans are at their most creative, they make a major contribution to what we might do to be even more creative than we are."
Marian Stamp Dawkins, University of Oxford, and co-author of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012)
"This groundbreaking work will inform, engage and please an extensive audience, from play scholars and naturalists to those seeking an improved basis for practical approaches to social questions. The book's originality, common-sense foundation, clear and readable language, and pragmatism are all commendable. The authors, whose landmark studies of behavioral development now span more than a quarter century, take pains to present a readable and direct exposition of their ideas. At the same time, they succeed in drawing bold distinctions when necessary and in forthrightly addressing concerns that span a broad range of social issues. The authors informatively fine-tune previous concepts of play in their successful efforts to link play with the origins of the creative process across a broad biological spectrum. The book's main themes are woven together to produce a work of great general interest."
Robert M. Fagen, author of Animal Play Behavior
"Kittens toy with half-dead prey, dogs chase sticks, kids pretend to be teachers or airline pilots, and their parents revel in painting, gardening and sport. All are examples of play behavior. But whilst it is immediately apparent that play is gratifying a compelling scientific explanation for why it evolved in the first place has remained elusive. Now Bateson and Martin, leading experts on animal behavior, provide an answer - play functions to generate creativity and stimulate innovation. It is an adaptation to get out of the rut and discover better solutions to life's challenges. With beautifully clear writing and covering diverse literatures, from animal cognition, to child development, to dreaming and psychedelic drugs, Bateson and Martin's text provides a wonderfully readable and much-needed summary of scientific knowledge of play."
Kevin N. Laland, University of St Andrews
"An important book at an important time. Again we are arguing over how best to fit our children to become useful productive citizens. Yes, we want them to be happy too, but the framework must somehow be put in. Play may be seen as a nice extra. Bateson and Martin argue it is much, much more. Reviewing a wide range of studies, beginning with play in some of our animal relatives then to ourselves from infancy to adult life they show how playfulness may be at the very core of creative thinking and action. During play we experiment, thinking outside the box, as we say. What can be established is a flexible framework much more adaptable to changing circumstances. In effect, this book celebrates the human free spirit and is full of encouraging examples of what can be achieved. I hope it is widely studied in educational circles."
Aubrey Manning, University of Edinburgh, and co-author of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012)
"Play will be to the twenty-first century what work was to the industrial age - our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. Therefore we need play theory and research, of a multidisciplinary nature, that can deepen and widen our understanding of this most dynamic of human evolved capacities - so we can design the best games, technologies, communities and organisations that will constitute this new era. Bateson and Martin have provided a wonderful resource for play/game advocates in all fields of life. Rooted in extremely solid biological and ethological research, they make subtle and powerful linkages between the mammalian basis of play, and the necessary profusion of social and cultural forms it generates, in ways that will help shape reform in areas diverse as childcare, innovative enterprise and drugs policy. Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation sets a new standard for studies of the power and potential of play."
Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic
"This highly engaging book provides a novel perspective on the role of play activities that apparently lack seriousness. The clarity of prose and diversity of material covered in Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation persuade the reader to reconsider the importance of play in childhood and beyond."
Gillian R. Brown, Science
Marian Stamp Dawkins, University of Oxford, and co-author of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012)
"This groundbreaking work will inform, engage and please an extensive audience, from play scholars and naturalists to those seeking an improved basis for practical approaches to social questions. The book's originality, common-sense foundation, clear and readable language, and pragmatism are all commendable. The authors, whose landmark studies of behavioral development now span more than a quarter century, take pains to present a readable and direct exposition of their ideas. At the same time, they succeed in drawing bold distinctions when necessary and in forthrightly addressing concerns that span a broad range of social issues. The authors informatively fine-tune previous concepts of play in their successful efforts to link play with the origins of the creative process across a broad biological spectrum. The book's main themes are woven together to produce a work of great general interest."
Robert M. Fagen, author of Animal Play Behavior
"Kittens toy with half-dead prey, dogs chase sticks, kids pretend to be teachers or airline pilots, and their parents revel in painting, gardening and sport. All are examples of play behavior. But whilst it is immediately apparent that play is gratifying a compelling scientific explanation for why it evolved in the first place has remained elusive. Now Bateson and Martin, leading experts on animal behavior, provide an answer - play functions to generate creativity and stimulate innovation. It is an adaptation to get out of the rut and discover better solutions to life's challenges. With beautifully clear writing and covering diverse literatures, from animal cognition, to child development, to dreaming and psychedelic drugs, Bateson and Martin's text provides a wonderfully readable and much-needed summary of scientific knowledge of play."
Kevin N. Laland, University of St Andrews
"An important book at an important time. Again we are arguing over how best to fit our children to become useful productive citizens. Yes, we want them to be happy too, but the framework must somehow be put in. Play may be seen as a nice extra. Bateson and Martin argue it is much, much more. Reviewing a wide range of studies, beginning with play in some of our animal relatives then to ourselves from infancy to adult life they show how playfulness may be at the very core of creative thinking and action. During play we experiment, thinking outside the box, as we say. What can be established is a flexible framework much more adaptable to changing circumstances. In effect, this book celebrates the human free spirit and is full of encouraging examples of what can be achieved. I hope it is widely studied in educational circles."
Aubrey Manning, University of Edinburgh, and co-author of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012)
"Play will be to the twenty-first century what work was to the industrial age - our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. Therefore we need play theory and research, of a multidisciplinary nature, that can deepen and widen our understanding of this most dynamic of human evolved capacities - so we can design the best games, technologies, communities and organisations that will constitute this new era. Bateson and Martin have provided a wonderful resource for play/game advocates in all fields of life. Rooted in extremely solid biological and ethological research, they make subtle and powerful linkages between the mammalian basis of play, and the necessary profusion of social and cultural forms it generates, in ways that will help shape reform in areas diverse as childcare, innovative enterprise and drugs policy. Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation sets a new standard for studies of the power and potential of play."
Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic
"This highly engaging book provides a novel perspective on the role of play activities that apparently lack seriousness. The clarity of prose and diversity of material covered in Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation persuade the reader to reconsider the importance of play in childhood and beyond."
Gillian R. Brown, Science
Book Description
What role does playful behaviour take in animal and human development? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on playful and non-aggressive behaviour in both animals and humans. The authors emphasise its significance for development, before examining the importance of playfulness to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.
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Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation – August 26, 2013
- Hardcover: 166 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (August 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1107015138
- ISBN-13: 978-1107015135
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,960,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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