Play and Educational Theory and Practice

Subjects:

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

Awards:

• Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2004

Reviews:

• Given the current cultural climate about school achievement, this book about play is an important addition to any library....Rarely does one collection encompass so many facets of a subject. Educators and developmentalists will find much to absorb and ponder as they read the research and the theory offered here. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice February 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