Imagination and play in the electronic age / Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Dorothy G.

Contributor:

Singer, Jerome L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play.

Imagination in children.

Television and children.

Computers and children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Prologue

1. Our Conscious Imagination

2. Play: Its Beginnings and Stages

3. Television and Imagination

4. Violent Themes in Play, TV Content, and Video Games

5. Adrift in Cyberspace: Children and Computer Play

6. A Role for Play in Early Learning

Epilogue

References

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-201) and index.

ISBN:

9780674043695

0674043693

OCLC:

1049687274