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Time for Play? Researching the right to play in children’s everyday lives with time use diaries

The importance of play is often emphasized within the early childhood education and care discourse as well as within the child’s rights discourse. At the same time, children and adults involved in their lives are becoming increasingly under pressure to prepare children for the future. This instigates questions about the nature of contemporary children’s everyday lives, and, specifically, about the right to play in children’s everyday lives. Realization of the right to play can be studied using time use diaries, in terms of gaining insight into the position of play in relation to other activities during the day. This chapter discusses different interpretations of the right to play, time use methodology focusing on time use diaries and provides an example of a preliminary research using time use diaries, focusing on the realization of the right to play.

right to play, time use diary, methodology, children, everyday life

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