Playful Approaches to Outdoor Learning: Boggarts, Bears, and Bunny Rabbits

Hayes, Tracy

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“…In highlighting his work here, I am not particularly advocating the need for more specifically-autoethnographic research by Children's Geographers (although that would no doubt be interesting); rather I would encourage more Geographers to write and work -in the same kind of spirit as Jones -from stuff that matters, and develop our own styles of thinking-writing-researching for making plain and taking seriously that mattering (see also Skelton 2013). Here, I find attempts to foster playful or 'childish' scholarly spaces by authors like Tracy Hayes (2014Hayes ( , 2015) particularly thought-provoking in signalling ways of thinking, writing and researching otherwise. Hayes's work takes the form of playwork, creative practices and story-telling workshops, often featuring a posse of 'Adventure Bears'.…”

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For the love of cuddly toys

Horton

2018

Children's Geographies

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This essay reflects upon a particular moment at the end of Chris Philo's Children's Geographies lecture (see Philo 2016), when discussion turned to cuddly toys. I recall a particular mood constituted in and by this moment: of apparent bashfulness, hesitancy, things-left-unsaid, and disinclination to discuss cuddly toys within the space of an academic conference. I suggest that this incident might be understood as indicative of three sets of silences which, still, characterise a great deal of work within the fantastically vibrant subdisciplines of Children's Geographies and Cultural Geographies. This argument is accompanied by photographic portraits of three particular toys: Angus, Arnold and the B.B.D. I hope that the presence of these portraits helps bring to the surface something of the often-silenced geographies-of memories, affects, intimacies and vulnerabilities, of play, fun and care, and of material and popular cultures-upon which my argument is focused.

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For the love of cuddly toys

Horton

2018

Children's Geographies

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“…I wrote a playful short story and put together some goody bags for delegates, complete with children's sweets, wax crayons and drawing paper (Hayes, 2016). Waiting for my turn -the last in the session -I nearly lost my nerve.…”

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Dr Bear and the adventure Bears

Hayes

2018

Children's Geographies

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‘I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…’: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces

Hayes

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography

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Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography AUTHOR ACCEPTED COPY "I thought… I saw… I heard…": The ethical and moral tensions of auto/biographically opportunistic research in public spaces.

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Playful Approaches to Outdoor Learning: Boggarts, Bears, and Bunny Rabbits

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

For the love of cuddly toys

For the love of cuddly toys

Dr Bear and the adventure Bears

‘I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…’: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces

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