Play and educational theory and practice / edited by Donald E. Lytle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lytle, Donald E., 1944-

Series:

Play & culture studies 1096-8911 ; v. 5.

Play & culture studies, 1096-8911 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

I. Play Theory and Research 1

1. Play as a Parody of Emotional Vulnerability / Brian Sutton-Smith 3

2. Simmel: On Sociability as the Play-Form of Human Association / Thomas S. Henricks 19

3. An Introduction to Research in Psychology: Learning to Observe Children at Play / Dana L. Gross 33

4. Where Is Play? / Patrick Biesty 43

II. Vygotskian Theory and Scaffolding 57

5. Putting Vygotsky to the Test / E. Beverley Lambert, Margaret Clyde 59

6. Play, Activity, and Thought: Reflections on Piaget's and Vygotsky's Theories / Rosario Ortega 99

7. The Effect of Verbal Scaffolding on the Complexity of Preschool Children's Block Constructions / Kara M. Gregory, An Sook Kim, Alice Whiren 117

III. Children's Playfulness and Learning 135

8. Levels of Analysis in Pretend Play Discourse: Metacommunication in Conversational Routines / R. Keith Sawyer 137

9. Symbolic Play through the Eyes and Words of Children / Janet K. Sawyers, Nathalie Carrick 159

10. Rural Children's Play in the Natural Environment / Betty A. Beach 183

IV. Children's Play, Humor, and Education 195

11. Play on Words: Humor as the Means of Developing Authentic Learning / Phil Fitzsimmons, Barbra McKenzie 197

12. "When I Play Funny It Makes Me Laugh": Implications for Early Childhood Educators in Developing Humor through Play / Grace Masselos 213

13. Recess in a Middle School: What Do the Students Do? / Olga S. Jarrett, Michelle Duckett-Hedgebeth 227

14. Questioning Play and Work, Early Childhood, and Pedagogy / Jeanette Rhedding-Jones 243

V. Asian Play Dynamics 255

15. Play, Racial Attitudes, and Self-Concept in Taiwan / Li-Chun Chang, Stuart Reifel 257

16. Contextual Understanding of Children's Play in Taiwanese Kindergartens / Pei-Yu Chang 277

17. Contextual Differences in Korean Mother-Child Interactions: A Study of Scaffolding Behaviors / Seunghwa Jwa, Joe L. Frost 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1567506844

OCLC:

50422914