Play: A Polyphony of Research, Theories, and Issues

Volume 12

Lynn E. Cohen, Sandra Waite-Stupiansky

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Year: 2011
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780761886921
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) (www.tasp.org) is the sponsor of volume twelve in the Play & Culture Studies series. TASP is a professional group of interdisciplinary researchers who study play.
Polyphony, defined as having many tones or voices, was used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin to describe the immense plurality of experiences in relationships. The chapters in volume 12 of Play & Culture Studies address the polyphony or many voices in the study of play from an interdisciplinary cadre of scholars in the fields of anthropology, education, psychology, linguistics, and history. In this time of globalization, hyper-capitalism, and discourses that disqualify children's play, we invite the reader to participate in diverse ways of thinking about play and pedagogy. To this end, Play, Volume 12 addresses research methodology, contemporary theories, technology, and advocacy. Applications to practice and policy implications are presented.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: RESEARCHERS’ VOICES
• Chapter One. Children’s Playful Consumption: The Hidden Negotiations of the Playground and the Home
• Chapter Two. Children’s Play Preferences in the Pacific Rim: Then and Now
• Chapter Three. Implementing a Playful Pedagogy in a Standards-Driven Curriculum: Rationale for Action Research in Teacher Education
• Chapter Four. Family Words as Creative and Affiliative Play
• Section II. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: THEORISTS’ VOICES
• Chapter Five. The Conservation of Meaning as a Function of Constraints in the Social Context of Puzzles: Piaget’s Social Theory Revisited
• Chapter Six. Pinpointing Play at the Edge of the Uncanny Valley
• Section III. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: VOICES FROM TECHNOLOGY
• Chapter Seven. Play, Technology Toy Affordances, and Brain Development—Research Needs and Policy Issues
• Chapter Eight. Game-ify Learning: Using What We Know about Games and Play to Motivate Learners
• Section IV. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: ADVOCATES’ VOICES
• Chapter Nine. Play in the New Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Analysis and Critique
• Chapter Ten. Preserving Play in Early Childhood Classrooms: Suggestions for Early Childhood Teacher Education and Policy
• Index
• Contributors