Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation / Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin.

Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation / Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin.

9781107689343 paperback
1107689341 paperback
9781107015135 hardcover
1107015138 hardcover

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

English

xi, 153 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

BF717 .B28 2013

155

"What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion sheds new light on the links between creativity and innovation, distinguishing between the generation of novel behaviour and ideas on the one hand, and the implementation of these novelties on the other. The authors then turn to the role of play in the development of the child and to parallels between play, humour and dreaming, along with the altered states of consciousness generated by some psychoactive drugs. A final chapter looks forward to future research and to what remains to be discovered in this fascinating and important field"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-149) and index.

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