Are You A 'Play Worker' Or 'Play Working' With Marc Armitage

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Imagine making play your life’s work. In today’s podcast, I talk with professional playworker and child advocate, Marc Armitage, who has done just that. We are chatting all about the role of adults and he asks us what is our agenda when it comes to providing play opportunities for children. 

👉  Marc Shares: 

• How his journey got started
• How playwork differs from other approaches to working with children
• That playwork is a unique way of connecting with children
• How playworkers balance the need for children to have autonomy with the need to ensure their safety
• The role of playworkers in play in developing and maintaining play environments
• How playworkers can create play spaces that are open-ended and allow for a wide range of play opportunities
• His definition of risky play
• About the risky play diet.
• Strategies to help children develop a sense of risk assessment and decision making when it comes to risky play
• The new types of risky play
• Why is it critical that we allow children the opportunity to play on their own terms
• His favourite type of adventurous play

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👉 Guest Details

Marc Armitage is an consultant, researcher and writer in children’s play, playing and Playwork. He began his professional career as a playworker in the early 1980s with a local organisation in the UK, Hull Community Playschemes Association, and since then has worked as a field playworker, an adventure playground worker, a double decker playbus worker, a local authority play development officer, a university lecturer, research associate and a company director. 

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