What is play? It’s an easy question without an easy answer.
To try and get to the bottom of that question, and to provide a rationale why it’s an important question to ask, Professors at Play co-founder Lisa Forbes empaneled a group of experts to try and find some answers.
Her initial publication based on her Delphi study with these experts was recently published in the Journal of Play in Adulthood. Not only is this study important in pushing forward our understanding of play and the need to grapple with definitions. It also leaps into new research territory by presenting its findings, playfully as a poem. Check it out! And if you get bored with the meticulous academic prose, skip to the poem. It’s, well, amazing.
enting its findings, playfully as a poem. Check it out! And if you get bored with the meticulous academic prose, skip tothe poem. It’s, well, amazing.