Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Play from Birth and Beyond
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Series: | International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Playing with Theory
- I The Value of Play
- 2 Making Life Worth Living: Theories of Play Enlivened through The Work of Donald Winnicott
- 3 The First Two Years of Life: A Development Psychology Orientation to Child Development and Play
- 4 Looking Deeper: Play and The Spiritual Dimension
- 5 "Muckabout": Aboriginal Conceptions of Play and Early Childhood Learning
- 6 Loving Learning: The Value of Play within Contemporary Primary School Pedagogy
- II Play Beyond Early Childhood
- 7 Cultural Development of the Child in Role-Play: Drama Pedagogy and Its Potential Contributions to Early Childhood Education
- 8 The Playground of the Mind: Teaching Literature at University
- 9 Gamestorming the Academy: On Creative Play and Unconventional Learning for The 21st Century
- 10 Designing for Serious Play
- 11 The Power of Play-based Learning: A Pedagogy of Hope for Potentially At-Risk Children
- III Socio-Cultural Context, Technology and Consumerism
- 12 Gendering the Subject in Playful Encounters
- 13 Toys and the Creation of Cultural Play Scripts
- 14 Playing with Technology: Young children Making Sense of Technology as Part of Their Everyday Social Worlds
- 15 Play, Virtue, and Well-being: Is Consumerist Play a Bad Habit?
- 16 Lego, Creative Accumulation and the Future of Play.
