Multiple perspectives on play in early childhood education / Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saracho, Olivia N.

Spodek, Bernard.

Series:

SUNY series, early childhood education.

SUNY series, early childhood education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Summary:

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. Play has been part of early childhood programs since the initial kindergarten developed by Friedreich Froebel more than one hundred and fifty years ago. While research shows that most teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational. Too often, in reflecting the value of child-initiated activities, teachers set the stage for children's play, observe it, but hesitate to intervene in that play. They may fear that to intervene is to create a developmentally inappropriate set of educational practices. However, the lack of intervention may limit the educational outcomes of play. Meanwhile, a large body of research exists on different forms of children's play in educational settings that could inform teachers of young children and help them to improve their practice and support more educational play. Saracho and Spodek bring together much of that research in an accessible volume for early childhood teachers and teacher educators. Olivia N. Saracho is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland. Bernard Spodek is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois. Saracho and Spodek have written several books together, including Right From the Start: Teaching Children Ages Three to Eight and Dealing with Individual Differences in the Early Childhood Classroom .

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Play in Early Childhood Education by Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek; 1. A Historical Overview of Theories of Play by Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek; 2. Playing with a Theory of Mind by Angeline S. Lillard; 3. The Social Origins of Mind: Post-Piagetian Perspectives on Pretend Play by Larry Smolucha and Francine Smolucha

4. Seeing through Symbols: The Development of Children's Understanding of Symbolic Relations by David H. Uttal, Donald P. Marzolf, Sophia L. Pierroutsakos, Catherine M. Smith, Georgene L. Troseth, Kathryn V. Scudder, and Judy S. DeLoache5. The Development of Pretense and Narrative in Early Childhood by Robert D. Kavanaugh and Susan Engel; 6. Play as an Opportunity for Literacy by Kathleen Roskos and Susan B. Neuman; 7. Play and Social Competence by Gary L. Creasey, Patricia A. Jarvis, and Laura E. Berk

8. Social and Nonsocial Play in Childhood: An Individual Differences Perspective by Kenneth H. Rubin and Robert J. Coplan9. Play in Special Populations by Fergus P. Hughes; 10. The Cultural Contexts of Children's Play by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Jennifer Lasker, Megan Sacks, and Marshall Stores; 11. Play and the Assessment of Young Children by A. D. Pellegrini; 12. What Is Stylish about Play? by Olivia N. Saracho; 13. Physical Environments and Children's Play by Joe L. Frost, Dongju Shin, and Paul J. Jacobs; 14. Real and Not Real: A Vital Developmental Dichotomy by Brian Vandenberg

ContributorsSubject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; Z; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4384-1868-X

0-585-06678-7

OCLC:

70772965