Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Play from Birth and Beyond

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lynch, Sandra (Editor), Pike, Deborah (Editor), à Beckett, Cynthia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, 18
• Subjects: Education.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Early Childhood Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Psychology.

While firmly acknowledging the importance of play in early childhood, this book interrogates the assumption that play is a birthright. It pushes beyond traditional understandings of play to ask questions such as: what is the relationship between play and the arts – theatre, music and philosophy – an...