Here are tried-and-tested magic rituals likely to sow surprising windfalls, lucky coincidences, advantageous occasions, joyful encounters, intoxicating loves, exciting endings, etc. on your way.

This book explores how play is perceived and practiced through the lens of various different professional and international contexts. Children’s experiences of play will vary according to the different institutions and organisations they are involved in across their lifespan during childhood. The chapters cover play from pre-school to adolescence that includes education, playwork and the new developing area of intergenerational play. This wide variety of contexts and cultures raises questi...

Work is undoubtedly one of the most important areas of our lives. Indeed, it is through work that we ensure our subsistence. But it is by no means easy to have a job that pays enough, one that you can do in pleasant conditions, and one that you can keep as long as you want. White magic can, on this plane, attract us the support of the invisible Energies of the Universe.

Play is of critical importance to the well-being of children across the globe, a fact reflected in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet existing literature on the subject is largely confined to discussing play from a developmental, educational or psychological perspective. Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective offers a new and exciting angle from which to view play, drawing on the authors’ own experience of conducting research into var...

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story.But who?Even though his unreliable dad tell...

This book explores how the Play Cycle can help practitioners to observe and understand children’s play and support their interactions with children. It explains the six elements of the Play Cycle – pre cue, play cue, play return, play frame, flow, and annihilation – and shows how practitioners can use this to guide their interventions.Building on the author’s research and including an updated and revised theory of the Play Cycle, the book applies the Play Cycle to key aspects of pr...

Building on the success of the first volume of Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective, this book further develops the crucial research of playwork as an emerging and unique discipline.The first volume explored how an understanding of playwork theory and practice can inform research into children’s play. From the seven contributors, four common themes to researching play from a playwork perspective were identified: rights-based; process, critical reflection and playfu...

Who among us doesn't have wishes to see come true? We always need something more to feel fully happy, because "Human happiness is made up of so many pieces that there are always some missing".

Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle, this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice, training and education. The Play Cycle: Theory, Research and Application is the first book of its kind to explain the theoretical concept of the Play Cycle, supported by recent research, and how it can be used as an observational method for anyone who works with children in a play context.The boo...

How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.” In the only biography on Seeger, David Dunaway parts the curtains on his life.Who is this rail-thin, eighty-eight-year-old with...

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Written in Marsh's clear and accessible style, the book details the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum, includingcurriculum planning and d...

This fourth edition is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors, working with young people.