The Power in Pretend: Supporting Children's Power, Identity, and Agency

Understand power and identity in children’s play. The Power in Pretend questions and sheds light on the ways children play with ideas of power. Children’s play often tells a story of power through the roles they choose to play: exercising power over, power with, or power for peers, adults, or phenomena from the wider world. Most adults are comfortable with some roles children take on, such as dinosaurs, mothers, and firefighters. Other roles or types of play make adults uncomfortable at tim...