Play As Engagement and Communication
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- Publisher:
- 2010
Summary
A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series. Students, play scholars, and play practitioners will gain information from groundbreaking studies, philosophical treatises, and in-depth reviews of current knowledge on child-child, child-adult, and child-animal play. Play and Culture Studies is the main publication of The Association for the Study of Play. Volume 10 includes such topics as student experiences with child play in hospitals, ethnographic studies of preschool play, and the connection between children and animals. The primary focus of the papers in this volume is to reflect on the close relationship between play and the process of engaging and communicating with others in different contexts.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2010
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7618-5083-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7618-5084-7
- Publisher
- Hamilton Books, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 224
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Foreword No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter One. The Therapeutic Benefits of Play for Hospitalized Children No access
- Chapter Two. Play between Children and Domestic Animals No access
- Chapter Three. Mothers’ Social and Didactic Actions during Play: Contributions of Infant Affect No access
- Chapter Four. The Reality of Pretend Play: Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Gender Variations in Young Children’s Involvement No access
- Chapter Five. Children’s Pretend Play with Media-Based Toys No access
- Chapter Six. Young Children’s Emotional Responses to Cheating in Game Play No access
- Chapter Seven. Contribution of Theory of Mind to Pretend Play: Concordance between Preschool Play Partners No access
- Chapter Eight. Rough and Tumble Play in Early Childhood Settings: Challenges for Personnel Training No access
- Chapter Nine. The Teacher’s Role in Enhancing Sociodramatic Play in Early Childhood Classrooms: A Studyin Head Start Classrooms No access
- Chapter Ten. Play as Ascending Meaning Revisited: Four Types of Assertive Play No access
- Contributors No access Pages 217 - 220
- Index No access Pages 221 - 224





