Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

By Stuart Brown, Christopher C. Vaughan. 2009

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Developing critical thinking, collective creativity skills and problem solving through playful design jams (2020, background): “Characteristics of play to create a positive experience in learning (adapted from Levy, 1978; Henricks, 1999; Kher et al., 1999; Brown, 2009; Pentaraki & Burkholder, 2017; Khazaei, 2018)”
Games Managers Play: Play as a Form of Leadership Development (2011, background): “The beneficial effects of getting just a little true play can spread through our lives, usually making us more productive and happier in everything we do” (Brown, 2009).”
The Elements of Play: Toward a Philosophy and a Definition of Play. (2014, background): “Brown, for example, argues that play is surely practice for the body, exercise for the feelings, and training for the mind.(8) Play makes us more interesting and better adjusted in social circumstances; it is education for the public self.”