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Direct linkDelaney, Katherine K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study examines how acceptable play was framed for a class of pre-Kindergarten children by their teacher and classroom aide. Using comic subjectivity theory [Zupancic, A. (2008). "The odd one in: On comedy." Cambridge: MIT Press], the author explores how children's playing at pretend violence (bad guy and pretend gun play) is…
Descriptors: Play, Violence, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Killing zombies on campus just isn't as much fun as it used to be. Students at Bowling Green State University once carried Nerf guns for a week each semester, shooting the zombies before the creatures could tag them. Participants were seen by most bystanders as nerdy but harmless kids who liked role-playing. These days, bright plastic Nerf guns…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Safety, School Security
