Anna Beresin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Beresin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Beresin |
| SIGNATURE | BERESIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Arts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Playful introduction: 15.2
We hope this issue challenges us all to question what we know, or think we know, about play. Longtime IJP contributor and board member Serge Pellis offers a ‘What is the State of Play? The Spectre ...
It/Not It
Play always has elements of power, whether addressing what gets played, or who gets to play it, or parodying those who have it. This issue focuses on recent submissions to the International Journal...
Playful introduction: 14.4
Playful introduction 14.1
Playful introduction
Playful introduction 13.1
Playful Introduction 13.4
A Sutton-Smith Mini Puzzle
Playful Introduction: 13.02
Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation
During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19. Folklorists Anna Beresin an…
Primate play during Covid-19
For more information see: ‘Play Signals, Play Moves: A Gorilla Critique of Play Theory’ International Journal of Play, Nov 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2018.1532681
Playful introduction 12.2
Playful introduction 12.3
Playful introduction 11.2
Playful Introduction 11.3
The International Journal of Play Inaugural Mini
"The International Journal of Play Inaugural MINI." International Journal of Play, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Playful introduction: 10.1
Play Studies has a debt to pay to early childhood research, as much of the literature about the importance of play is rooted in the study of young children. In this issue we pay tribute to new rese
Playful introduction 10.3
A more serious introduction: A Critique of the Inherent Racism in Early Comparative Play Theory
Comparative cultural analyses pose problems methodologically and ethically. Three years ago, the International Journal of Play was offered the opportunity to publish a chapter of an early twentieth
Playful introduction 9.4
This issue presents research related to children's rights and inclusivity. For so many children, basic rights of playful assembly and even freedom of expression have been compromised by COVID-19 co
A playful introduction 9.2
Playful introduction to 9.3
We dedicated this issue to the theme of play, healing, and therapy, not knowing several months ago that this time would be marked by a pandemic and protests over extreme racial injustice. The motif
A playful introduction 8.2
Playful introduction 8.3
This editor loves the verbs in this set of articles - comparing, signalling, conceptualizing, understanding, examining, looking, defending - a diversity of processes in the service of play. This is
A playful introduction, 7.3
In this issue, we are honored to include a lead off essay by Professor David Whitebread of the Play in Education, Development, and Learning (PEDAL) research centre at the University of Cambridge. H
Playing with time: Towards a Global Survey of Recess Practices
Play scholarship has focused on matters of space and accessibility to the exclusion of the opportunity for play time. Based on conversations with play practitioners, elementary school teachers, and child development researchers across the globe, this study will lay out the beginning of a global survey of recess practices, or school based play time. Along with a list of dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, this paper shares commentarie…
Play counts: Pedometers and the Case for Recess
This paper seeks to demonstrate the physical benefits of child-directed free play during recess through the use of pedometers. Although play is clearly not reducible to exercise, this study of an urban, middle class, public elementary school found that recess offered, on average, 30% more steps per minute than organized gym periods. For some children in this urban American sample, recess offered twice the amount of movement as the equivalent time…
Play signals, play moves: A Gorilla Critique of Play Theory
Play dates over a three-year study of two bachelor western lowland gorillas at the Philadelphia Zoo offer a critique of the idea of play as essentially a voluntary activity. Through video microanalysis, play emerges as negotiated interaction. The study goes beyond the primate ‘play face’ (PF) to understand the complexity of signaled play sessions and suggests that gorillas, like humans, have the equivalent of pregame ritual, and that play may cli…
O.p: Collection as celebration of children's self-organized play
Children's Expressive Culture in Light of September 11, 2001
Play and games relating to September 11 reflect children's strategies for making sense with nonsense. This essay calls for the reexamination of play and recess as nontrivial parts of schooling and as sources for anthropological research
Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling
As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children’s time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, this book is a reflection of urban childhood at the turn of the millennium. It debunks myths about recess violence and challenges the notion that school yard play is a waste of time. The …
Play counts: Pedometers and the Case for Recess
This paper seeks to demonstrate the physical benefits of child-directed free play during recess through the use of pedometers. Although play is clearly not reducible to exercise, this study of an urban, middle class, public elementary school found that recess offered, on average, 30% more steps per minute than organized gym periods. For some children in this urban American sample, recess offered twice the amount of movement as the equivalent time…
Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
Book Review| October 01 2012 Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children’s Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children’s Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling. By Jack Zipes. (New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. ix + 189, notes, bibliography, index.). Anna R. Beresin Anna R. Beresin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2012) 125 (498): 5…
O.p: Collection as celebration of children's self-organized play
Playing with time: Towards a Global Survey of Recess Practices
Play scholarship has focused on matters of space and accessibility to the exclusion of the opportunity for play time. Based on conversations with play practitioners, elementary school teachers, and child development researchers across the globe, this study will lay out the beginning of a global survey of recess practices, or school based play time. Along with a list of dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, this paper shares commentarie…
Brian Sutton-Smith memorial panel - a celebration of the life and works of Brian Sutton-Smith
On the final day of the 2015 TASP conference, we heard of the sad passing of our great friend and inspiration, Brian Sutton-Smith. The memorial panel, which was one of the centre-pieces of the 2016 TASP conference, was the first opportunity we had to mark his passing. We did so with a selection of memories and reflections on his life. Brian spent his adult life studying the phenomenon of play in all its forms: child and adult; frivolous and serio…
A playful introduction, 7.3
In this issue, we are honored to include a lead off essay by Professor David Whitebread of the Play in Education, Development, and Learning (PEDAL) research centre at the University of Cambridge. H
A Playful Introduction 7.2
A Playful Introduction to 7.1
Play signals, play moves: A Gorilla Critique of Play Theory
Play dates over a three-year study of two bachelor western lowland gorillas at the Philadelphia Zoo offer a critique of the idea of play as essentially a voluntary activity. Through video microanalysis, play emerges as negotiated interaction. The study goes beyond the primate ‘play face’ (PF) to understand the complexity of signaled play sessions and suggests that gorillas, like humans, have the equivalent of pregame ritual, and that play may cli…
A playful introduction 8.2
Playful introduction 8.3
This editor loves the verbs in this set of articles - comparing, signalling, conceptualizing, understanding, examining, looking, defending - a diversity of processes in the service of play. This is
Playful introduction 9.4
This issue presents research related to children's rights and inclusivity. For so many children, basic rights of playful assembly and even freedom of expression have been compromised by COVID-19 co
A playful introduction 9.2
Playful introduction to 9.3
We dedicated this issue to the theme of play, healing, and therapy, not knowing several months ago that this time would be marked by a pandemic and protests over extreme racial injustice. The motif
Playful introduction: 10.1
Play Studies has a debt to pay to early childhood research, as much of the literature about the importance of play is rooted in the study of young children. In this issue we pay tribute to new rese
Playful introduction 10.3
A more serious introduction: A Critique of the Inherent Racism in Early Comparative Play Theory
Comparative cultural analyses pose problems methodologically and ethically. Three years ago, the International Journal of Play was offered the opportunity to publish a chapter of an early twentieth
Playful introduction 11.2
Playful Introduction 11.3
The International Journal of Play Inaugural Mini
"The International Journal of Play Inaugural MINI." International Journal of Play, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation
During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19. Folklorists Anna Beresin an…
Primate play during Covid-19
For more information see: ‘Play Signals, Play Moves: A Gorilla Critique of Play Theory’ International Journal of Play, Nov 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2018.1532681
Playful introduction 12.2
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Child Therapy and Development (4 works) · Education and Technology Integration (4 works)