| Description |
xxi, 578 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 970 |
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Garland reference library of social science ; v. 970.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Play in historical contexts -- Play in the context of life-span human development -- Diversity and play: influences of race, culture, class, and gender -- Play as children see it -- Play: a medium for literacy development -- Play and its influence on the development of young children's mathematical thinking -- Dabbling, discovery, and dragonflies: scientific inquiry and exploratory representational play -- Clinical perspectives on play -- Play and |
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technology: revised realities and potential perspectives -- The meaning of play as a human experience -- No learning by coercion: paidia and paideia in Platonic philosophy -- Play, Proteus, and paradox: education for a chaotic and supersymmetric world -- Play development from birth to age four -- Play development from ages four to eight -- Play development from ages eight to twelve -- Play and language: individual differences as evidence of development and style -- |
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Language and play: natural partners -- Gender identity and play -- Play as the language of children's feelings -- The role of play in assessment -- Can I play too? Reflections on the issues for children with disabilities -- City play -- Children's outdoor play: an endangered activity -- Perspectives on play in playgrounds -- School-based play and social interactions: opportunities and limitations -- Play as ritual in health care settings -- Adult direct and indirect |
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influences on play -- Peer and sibling influences on play -- Peer and sibling influences on play -- Adult influences on play: the Vygotskian approach -- Intergenerational play: parents and children -- Play between generations: grandparents and children -- Games, achievement, and the mastery of social skills -- Fantasy and imagination -- Challenge and risk-taking in play -- Play as a context for humor development -- Sociocultural influences on gender-role behaviors in |
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children's play -- Play with violence: understanding and responding effectively -- The meanings in play with objects -- Social play -- Sociodramatic play: pretending together -- Constructive play -- Rough-and-tumble play from childhood through adolescence: differing perspectives -- Games with rules -- Sport as play (and work) -- Transcendence in the play of remembrance -- Play in the visual arts: one photographer's way-of-working -- The playful ways of the performing |
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artist -- At play in the field of archaeology -- Playfulness in the biological sciences -- Sociologists and play research -- Chemists and play -- The playful ways of mathematicians' work -- Mixing business with pleasure: play in the world of work -- Play among education professionals -- Play by newspaper journalists and editors -- Use of play in the law -- Playfulness in medicine: a pediatric perspective -- Electronically mediated playscapes -- Advocacy for the child's |
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right to play -- Educational implications of play with computers -- Emerging and future contexts, perspectives, and meanings of play. |
| Subject |
Play.
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Child development.
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Play -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Fromberg, Doris Pronin, 1937-
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Bergen, Doris.
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| Added Title |
Play from birth to 12 and beyond |
| ISBN |
081531745X alkaline paper |
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