Go out and play, but mean it: Using frame analysis to explore recent news media coverage of the rediscovery of unstructured play.
Highlights: [•] First frame analysis on news coverage play reveals the spontaneity in play valued by children and endorsed by scholars is absent from recent descriptions by journalists. [ • ] Journalists’ descriptions of play support the “rhetoric of progress” discussed by Brian Sutton-Smith. [•] Th...
| Published in: | Social Science Journal Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 510 - 521 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2013
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