Playing for Life: A Case Study in Childhood, Culture and Transition

这项研究将推动澳大利亚关于后殖民社会身份形成的研究；发展学术人类学中以儿童为中心的研究；使澳大利亚土著研究与儿童社会想象力领域的最新国际进展保持一致；创新对改变土著世界观的分析；创建与澳大利亚土著深入心理学研究的视角；为比较研究和教学建立丰富的资源。它还提供了明显的社会效益：促进对土著儿童在文化转型过程中的社会和精神需求的理解；通过确定儿童和土著社会的积极潜力来促进平等。

This study will advance Australian research on identity formation in postcolonial societies; develop child-focused research in academic anthropology; align Australian Aboriginal Studies with recent international progress in the field of children's social imagination; innovate the analysis of transforming Indigenous worldviews; create a perspective for in-depth psychological research with Aboriginal Australians; build a rich resource for comparative research and for teaching. It also offers distinct social benefits: fostering the understanding of Aboriginal children's social and mental needs in processes of cultural transformation; enhancing equality by identifying the positive potentials in children and Aboriginal society.