Session Information
29 SES 03 A JS, Joint Paper Session - NW 29 and NW 33
Joint Paper and Ignite Talk Session NW 29 and NW 33
Contribution
Young children´s, mostly boys, war play is an ongoing dilemma for teachers and parents around the world. Should war play be allowed or forbidden?
In my short presentation I will enhance what young children explore and invent in their physical war play. Above all, a choreographic dimension that is explored and created with an intense passion. In the discussion that follows I would like us to discuss different aspects and similarities concerning war play and how we approach them in similar or different ways in different countries. In our educational effort to upbring peaceful, empathetic citizens – what are we missing and how can we help each other to be more careful and sensitive in our approach to children? This presentation and discussion has its point of departure in the thesis : "Force, form, transformations - on khinesthetic musicality and bodyworldning in young boys war play" (Theorell, 2021) . The session will have a special focus on aesthetic dimensions, but the discussion is interesting for many fields such as sociology, psychology and gender studies for example, since war play is a very complex phenomena.
Method
Film and photo
References
Erin Manning Giles Deleuze Susanne Ravn Ellen Dissanayake William Corsaro
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