Researching Play through the lenses of Occupation-based Social Transformation
Creators: name: Veiga-Seijo, Silvia
name: Jackson, Jeanne
name: Kantartzis, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Play
Occupation-based Social Transformation
Community

description: <strong>Introduction: </strong>An occupation-based social transformation agenda is advancing as an increasing priority in Occupational Science to address social and health inequalities. There is recognition of the need for the development of both scholarship and empirical examples to support its further growth (Farias et al., 2019; Laliberte-Rudman et al., 2019; van Bruggen et al., 2020). This presentation aims to introduce a theoretical framework of play as an occupation for social transformation. <strong>Approach</strong>: A theoretical framework built upon a literature review is presented, based on linking play's conceptualization and the lenses of social transformation through occupation. This approach is contextualized in a PhD study exploring the play of children living in a disadvantaged community. <strong>Supporting Arguments: </strong>This theoretical framework puts forward play as an occupation for social transformation, articulating that when children play they are generators of community life since it fosters community identity and wellbeing, as well as relationships, cohesion, and belonging between children, families, and the whole neighbourhood. Play is an essential occupational right as children grow up: it facilitates children and community members to be active agents, builds community involvement, inclusive communities and tackle inequalities (Gleave, 2010; Elsley, 2015). This position emphasises the importance of an inclusive occupational rather than an instrumental perspective of play. <strong>Implications for Occupational Science: </strong>The play conceptualization presented may strengthen and expand the key principles and approaches that inform occupation-based social transformation. Approaching play as an occupation for social transformation may enable the mobilization, contribution, and collaboration of Occupational Science in international interdisciplinary dialogues about play conceptualizations.
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