ABSTRACT
This closing chapter will explore well-established constructs of play and how elemental play may ‘be judged by the extent to which [it] can be integrated or reconceptualised with previous ones’ (Vasta, 1992: 277). Kimes Myers (1997: 5-6) articulates the idea that theories are edges:
Such exploration on the margins of what we know allows those who live and work with young children to accept the position of becoming informal researchers even as they explore this edge; that is, they might be investigating what we still don’t know even as they ask questions related to the children in their care . . . has the potential to move us beyond that inherited from those who came before.
