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Play in School - Releasing the strangle-hold

The first article in this two-part series noted that ‘Health and Safety’ considerations appeared to exert a ‘strangle-hold’ on schools, certainly so far as children playing at breaktime is concerned. And of course, the function of a ‘strangle-hold’ is to squeeze the life out of someone, or at least seriously to impair their capacity for free movement and personal agency…

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This entry was posted by admin on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 4:24 pm and is filed under Articles, Policy and Strategy, Risk and Play.

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