A-Z of play in early childhood / Janet Moyles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyles, Janet R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The key themes in play are explored through an A - Z approach covering key concepts, theories / theorists, and figures.

Contents:

A-Z of Play in Early Childhood; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of diagrams; List of photographs; List of tables; Introduction; A; Active learning through play; Adult-initiated/guided play; Adult play; Assessment and play; Autotelic activity; B; Baby play; Behaviours and play; Brain studies/neuroscience and play; C; Child-initiated play; Cognitive play and learning and metacognition; Consumerism/commercialism and play; Creativity and play; Culture and play; Curriculum and play; D; Decision-making and play; Deep-level learning and play; Dispositions to play and learning; E

Emotional development and playEnvironments for play; Exploratory/epistemic play; F; First-hand experience (see also exploratory/epistemic play); Flow/free-flow play; Forest School and play; Fun; G; Games play; Gender and play; H; Health and play; Heuristic play; Humour and play; I; Iconic and symbolic learning and play; Imaginative play/imaginary friends; Inclusion, equality and play; Independence and self-regulation in play; J; Jargon of play; 'Junk' (found/recycled materials) and play; K; Key Persons and play; Kinaesthetic play; L; Language and communication play

Listening to children at playLudic play; M; Mastery play; Messy play; Moral development and play; Motivation and play; N; Narrative play and story; Natural world and play; Negotiation skills and play; O; Object play; Outdoor play; Ownership; P; Parents and play; Photography and play; Physical play; Planning for play/playfulness; Q; Quality play; Questioning; Quiet play; R; Recapitulative play; Reflecting on play; Risk/risky play; Role-play/pretend play/fantasy play; Rough and tumble; S; Schemas and play; Social development and play; Socio-dramatic play; Superhero play; Symbolic play; T

Technology and playTherapeutic (cathartic) play; Transformational play; Types of play; U; United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - right to play; Universality of play; V; Values in play and playfulness; Voice - children's voices in play; W; Wii play; Work/play dimensions; X Y Z; Xbox; Young children; Youth play; Zero-in on play; Zigler; Author Index; Subject Index; Advert

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-59456-0

9786613907011

0-335-24639-7

OCLC:

818847094