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Play is locked into an array of binary oppositions and clichés. This introduction opens up the space between work and play and releases play from early childhood education. By freeing play from clichés and childhood, a new mode of learning emerges.
Where does this exuberance come from? And where does it go?(Stuart Brown [1], p. 78)
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Cunningham [2].
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An example of this use is Taylor Swift’s “Shake it off,” YouTube, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM.
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Brown [1], p. 17.
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Mazzoni and Iannone [3].
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“Let’s play darts,” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teI5bep-Otw.
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Tierney et al. [4].
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J. Paul Gee , “Games, passion, and ‘higher’ education,” from Tierney et al. [4].
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Sicart [5].
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This problem and transformation of universities was best captured by E. P. Thompson’s essay “The Business University,” from Writing by Candlelight [6].
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Sicart, M. (2014). Play matters. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Thompson, E. P. (1980). Writing by Candlelight. London: Merlin.
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Brabazon, T. (2016). Introduction: Play Up? Play Around?. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) Play: A Theory of Learning and Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25549-1_1
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