April 26, 2006 Source: :
http://www.brocku.ca/webnews/displaystory.phtml?TEMPLATE=template.html&sid=1477 The Power of Play comes to Brock The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) will host their 32nd Annual Meeting at Brock University, from Wednesday, May 17 to Saturday, May 20. TASP is a multidisciplinary organization whose purpose is to promote the study of play, to support and cooperate with other organizations having similar purposes, and to organize meetings and publications that facilitate the sharing and dissemination of information related to the study of play. TASP publishes Play and Culture Studies and Play Review. The broad focus of TASP includes many disciplines and scholarly interests from animal behavior, anthropology, the arts and humanities, cultural studies, education, communication, folklore, history, kinesiology, popular culture, musicology, occupational science, museums, philosophy, psychology, recreation and leisure studies and sociology. The theme of the 2006 conference is "The Power of Play." The program includes Dr. Olga Jarrett's Presidential Address, a proposal from the National Museum of Play, and a Keynote and Plenary by Dr. June Factor on Dorothy Howard's contributions to the Play and Folklore of Children in the US, Mexico, and Australia. Scholars from Canada, the United States, Nigeria, Italy, Korea, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, and Portugal will be participating. In particular, Dr. Fraser Brown will present on the effects of play with orphaned children institutionalized in Romania. Dr. Zopito Marini will lead a panel discussion on the impact of "bullying" and the erosion of recess in schools, and Dr. Peggy O'Neil-Wagner will offer current research on animal play. For more information about the conference, please consult the website www.csuchio.edu/kine/ tasp, or contact Dr. Ann Marie Guilmette, First Vice-President and 2006 TASP Conference Chair, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, at ext. 3124; e-mail: aguilmette@brocku.ca
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