Children’s play and adult gaming, each of which are present in the world of education and training, too often refer to different explanatory paradigms. Is this distinction a legitimate one? In what way? This special issue of S&G and this introduction endeavor to provide some answers to these questions, based both on theoretical reflections and on examples given by the authors. The author attempts to demonstrate that these two fields of reflection have everything to gain through mutual enrichment.
Neste artigo, serão retomadas as teses desenvolvidas no livro Jogo e educação (Brougère, 1998), não para questioná-las, mas para ampliar a análise, situando as relações entre jogo e educação no âmbito da educação informal e do lazer, associando atividades adultas e infantis. Tão importante quanto defender uma especificidade do jogo, que tentamos evidenciar em vários planos, é relacioná-lo com as atividades que lhe são similares. Tal proposta pretende favorecer a introdução de novas pistas de análise e redimensionar a questão em um contexto menos mítico.
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