Several Perspectives on Children's Play
Author: Jan van Gils
Publisher: Garant
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9044121839
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International Perspectives On Children'S Play
Author: Roopnarine, Jaipaul
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0335262880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an analysis of children’s play across many different cultural communities around the globe.
Children's Play and Development
Author: Ivy Schousboe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-20
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9400765797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.
Play and Literacy in Early Childhood
Author: Kathleen A. Roskos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1351553968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together studies, research syntheses, and critical commentaries that examine play-literacy relationships from cognitive, ecological, and cultural perspectives. The cognitive view focuses on mental processes that appear to link play and literacy activities; the ecological stance examines opportunities to engage in literacy-related play in specific environments; and the social-cultural position stresses the interface between the literacy and play cultures of home, community, and the school. Examining play from these diverse perspectives provides a multidimensional view that deepens understanding and opens up new avenues for research and educational practice. Each set of chapters is followed by a critical review by a distinguished play scholar. These commentaries' focus is to hold research on play and literacy up to scrutiny in terms of scientific significance, methodology, and utility for practice. A Foreword by Margaret Meek situates these studies in the context of current trends in literacy learning and instruction. Earlier studies on the role of play in early literacy acquisition provided considerable information about the types of reading and writing activities that children engage in during play and how this literacy play is affected by variables such as props, peers, and adults. However, they did not deal extensively, as this book does, with the functional significance of play in the literacy development of individual children. This volume pushes the study of play and literacy into new areas. It is indispensable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of early childhood education and early literacy development.
Multiple Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education
Author: Olivia N. Saracho
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780791436158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational. This volume reflects current research in the child development and early childhood education fields.
Contemporary Perspectives on Mathematics in Early Childhood Education
Author: Olivia Saracho
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1607526379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a comprehensive critical analysis of the research in mathematics education for young children. The researchers who conducted the critical analysis focused on the relationship between (1) mathematics learning in the early years and domain specific approaches to cognitive development, (2) the children’s social learning and their developing understanding of math, and (3) the children’s learning in a natural context and their understanding of mathematics concepts. The work of these scholars can help guide those researchers who are interested in pursuing studies in early childhood mathematics in a specific area of study. This volume will facilitate the research conducted by both novice and expert researchers. The volume has accomplished its major goals, which consists of critically analyzing important research in a specific area that would be most useful in advancing the field and provide recommendations for both researchers and educators.
Perspectives on Play
Author: Avril Brock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 1315288559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This brand new text breaks the mould of books on the subject of play currently on the market. It explores, debates and further develops the theory of play, relating cutting-edge theory to examples of practice, taken from a broad range of multi-disciplinary perspectives. Each author brings their own perspective to the subject, based on rich and diverse experience, examining play-based activities from a wide variety of settings: the classroom, the playground, the home and local community. Each chapter is illustrated throughout with observation notes, case studies, interviews and discussions, encouraging you not only to critically evaluate current research but to reflect on ways in which you could develop and improve your own practice. Perspectives on Play will be an invaluable resource for any student studying within childhood studies, playwork programmes or training to teach at early years or primary level. The book is also ideal for early years, primary and play practitioners.
Children's Play and Learning
Author: Edgar Klugman
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780807730324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The intention of this book is to inform policy-makers, decision-makers, teacher educators, teachers and researchers about the importance of dramatic, social and emotional development of young children (aged 3-8 years).
Play and Learning in Early Childhood Settings
Author: Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-11-14
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1402084986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book represents the outcome of the joint activities of a group of scholars who were concerned about the lack of international research in play for children from birth to 3 years. The authors are members of the Organisation Mondiale pour ` l’Education Prescholaire ́ (OMEP). For further information, see http://www.om- ong.net/. The idea of carrying out a research project internationally was born at the OMEP’s World Congress in Melbourne, Australia 2004. All member countries were invited and 10 countries decided to participate, of which three have withdrawn d- ing the process. The reason for this might be that in these countries only one person was working with the project, while other seven countries have been working in a team of two or more persons. The countries that have carried out research and contributed to this book with a chapter each are Australia, Chile, China, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and USA (Wisconsin). For more information about the p- ticipating countries and their corresponding addresses, see Appendix I. This book project started in Melbourne with a discussion about what is general in early childhood education globally, and what is culturally speci c. The discussion was inspired by one of the keynote speakers, Nazhat Shameem (2004), judge in the supreme court in Fiji, when she said: “If we all think we are so different and speci c in each culture, the role of human rights has no value anymore.” We formulated three questions:
Enhancing Learning Through Play
Author: Christine Macintyre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-09-07
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1136707360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By highlighting the learning potential with different play activities, this book shows how play can complement and enhance the social, emotional, perceptual motor and intellectual development of children in their early years.
