Resources

What We Know About Play:
A Walk through the Selected Research

If you want new reference points the next time you have a few minutes to enjoy watching children do what children do, take a quick walk through the knowledge base on play as it now exists.

Among the many that could be highlighted, you'll find a selection of resources below.

The state of the knowledge base
First, a word about existing research. Put simply, the knowledge base about play, consisting of studies that have been conducted over the past several generations is sizable.

And yet, what we still don't know looms large. Suffice it to say that there are plenty of masters' theses and doctoral dissertation topics to keep graduate students in business for a long time to come.

At Playing for Keeps, we are committed to serving as the central source of information about play, and to that end we are developing a major project that will collect information about all the major studies that have been done on play.