Neva Boyd
Neva Leona Boyd | |
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Recreational Therapy | |
| Notable works | Handbook of Recreational Games |
| Influenced | Viola Spolin William C. Menninger |
Neva Leona Boyd (February 25, 1876 in
sociologist. She founded the Recreational Training School at the Hull House in Chicago. The school taught a one-year educational program in group games, gymnastics, dancing, dramatic arts, play theory, and social problems. She was on the faculty of Northwestern University
from 1927 to 1941.
Biography
Born in 1876 in Iowa, Boyd moved to Chicago after high school. She enrolled in the Chicago Kindergarten Institute (now
settlement house for European immigrants. She taught kindergarten in Buffalo, New York, before returning in 1908 to attend the University of Chicago
.
The Chicago Park Commission hired Boyd as a social worker, specifically to organize social clubs, direct
Recreational Therapy and Educational Drama movements in the U.S.[1]
Boyd also worked in military convalescent homes. The
Red Cross
, which established these convalescent houses, ensured that all wounded veterans engaged in playful games to prepare them for leaving the hospital. By the 1940s, Boyd's methods found their ways into every military hospital in the country.
Colonel
Theater Games
improvisational theater techniques, were two of her students.
Books published
- Old Square Dances of America by N. Boyd e Tressie M. Dunlavy (1932, 2007)
- Handbook of Recreational Games (1975). Dover Publications facsimile reprint of Handbook of Games (1945), see below ISBN 0-486-23204-2
- Play and game theory in group work: A collection of papers by Neva Leona Boyd por N. Boyd e Paul Simon (1971)
- Social group work: A definition with a methodological note de Neva Leona Boyd, (1971). Ed Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
- Social group work;: A definition with a methodological note (1949)
- Handbook of games (1945)
- Home games: A collection of games Neva Leona Boyd (1942)
- Group work experiments in state institutions. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Social Work (pp. 339–345). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1935).
- Folk Games and Gymnastic Play for Kindergarten, Primary, and Playground Dayny, and Neva L. Boyd Pedersen (1914, 1932)
- Hospital and bedside games (1930, 1945)
- Schoolroom games (1932)
- Outline for recording on clubs and dramatic groups (1932)
- Hospital and Bedside Games (1919)
- Old English and American Games for School and Playground by Florence Warren and Boyd, Neva L. Brown (Paperback - 1915)
- Folk Games of Denmark and Sweden for School, Playground and Social Center Dagny and Boyd, Neva L. Pedersen (1915)
References
- ^ Creative Arts Therapies Manual by Stephanie L. Brooke, Ph.D., NCC, page 216.
- ^ "Articles pertaining to Viola Spolin and her work". Viola Spolin. Intuitive Learning Systems. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
Further reading
- Neva Leona Boyd, a Biographical Sketch por Paul Simon
- Writings at University of Illinois - Chicago
- social groupwork: formulation of a method, 1920-1936
- The Group Work Tradition and Social Work Practice - William Schwartz
- Ancient and Modern Roots of Drama Therapy
- publications indexed by Google Scholar
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