Young People's Play, Wellbeing and Learning

Dimitra Hartas is Associate Professor at the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include children’s wellbeing, parenting, social class and social justice, drawing on critical theories of class.

• 1. Teenage Play and Peer Interactions: Virtual, Social and Emotional Geographies.- 2. Free and Guided Play and Unequal Childhoods.- 3. Play and Learning Behaviours, Attitudes and Aspirations.- 4. Teenage Free and Guided Play in the Era of Intensive Parenting.- 5. Conclusion: Teenagers in the Era of the 'Super-Connected' Selves.