Play and Educational Theory and Practice

Subjects:

• Education » Childhood & Elementary Education
• Psychology » Developmental Psychology

Awards:

• Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2004

Table of Contents:

• Series Editor's Note
  Introduction and Acknowlegements by Don Lytle, Editor
  Play Theory and Research
  Play as a Parody of Emotional Vulnerability by Brian Sutton-Smith
  Simmel: On Sociability as the Play-form of Human Association by Thomas Henricks
  An Introduction to Research in Psychology: Learning to Observe Children at Play by Dana L. Gross
  Where Is Play by Patrick Biesty
  Vygotskian Theory and Scaffolding
  Putting Vygotsky to the Test by E. Beverley Lambert and Margaret Clyde
  Play, Activity and Thought: Reflections on Piaget's and Vygotsky's Theories by Rosario Ortega
  Verbal Scaffolding and Complexity of Block Constructions by Kara M. Gregory, Ansook Kim, and Alice Whiren
  Children's Playfulness and Learning
  Levels of Analysis in Pretend Play Discourse: Metacommunication in Conversational Routines by R. Keith Sawyer
  Symbolic Play Through Eyes and Words of Children by Janet K. Sawyers and Nathalie Carrick
  Rural Children's Play in the Natural Environment by Betty Beach
  Children's Play, Humor, and Education
  Play on Words: Humor as the Means of Developing Authentic Learning by Phil Fitzsimmons and Barbra Mckenzie
  When I Play Funny It Makes Me Laugh: Implications for Early Childhood Educators in Developing Humor Through Play by Grace Masselos
  Recess in a Middle School: What Do the Students DO? by Olga Jarrett
  Questioning Play and Work, Early Childhood and Pedagogy by Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
  Asian Play Dynamics
  Play, Racial Attitudes, and Self-Concept in Taiwan by Stuart Reifel and Li-Chun "Sandy" Chang
  Contextual Understanding of Children's Play in Taiwanese Kindergartens by Pei-Yu Chang
  Contextual Difference in Korean Mother-Child Interactions: A Study of Scaffolding Behaviors by Joe L. Frost and Seunghwa Jwa
  Author Index
  Subject Index