This text looks at how the study of play has gained attention and concerns about play in young children have emerged. Ten chapters examine the understanding of play and its theories, play in school, pre-school and theories of pretence, mental representation and humour development.
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Contemporary Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education
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Contemporary Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education
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Publisher
Information Age PublishingYear
2003Print ISBN
9781930608306
9781930608313
eBook ISBN
9781607525271
Table of contents
- Cover
- A Volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education: Contemporary Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education
- Copyright Page
- Contemporary Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education
- CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Advisory Committee
- Consulting Editors
- Contents
- Introduction: Historical Antecedents of Early Childhood Education Play
- 1: Understanding Play and Its Theories
- 2: Spontaneous Play in the 21st Century
- 3: Theories of Pretense, Mental Representation, and Humor Development: Answers and Questions
- 4: Play in School—The Teacher’s Role: Reforms and Recent Research
- 5: Young Children’s Play and Cognitive Style
- 6: On the Relation Between Play and Symbolic Thought: The Case of Mathematics Manipulatives
- 7: Play and Early Development and Education: The Instantiation of Parental Belief Systems
- 8: Play in Children: An Attachment Perspective
- 9: The Teening of Preschool Play
- 10: Early Childhood Educational Play
- About the Authors
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