Research Catalog

Title

Play from birth to twelve and beyond : contexts, perspectives, and meanings / editors, Doris Pronin Fromberg, Doris Bergen.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Fromberg, Doris Pronin, 1937-
• Bergen, Doris.

Description

xxi, 578 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 970

Uniform Title

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 970.

Alternative Title

Play from birth to 12 and beyond

Subject

• Play
• Child development
• Play > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris Bergen -- Play in Historical Contexts / Donna R. Barnes -- Play in the Context of Life-Span Human Development / Valeria J. Freysinger -- Diversity and Play: Influences of Race, Culture, Class, and Gender / Patricia G. Ramsey -- Play as Children See It / Greta G. Fein and Nancy W. Wiltz -- Play: A Medium for Literacy Development / James F. Christie -- Play and Its Influence on the Development of Young Children's Mathematical Thinking / Ranald H. Jarrell -- Dabbling, Discovery, and Dragonflies: Scientific Inquiry and Exploratory Representational Play / Christopher R. Wolfe, R. Hays Cummins and Christopher A. Myers -- Clinical Perspectives on Play / Karen Gitlin-Weiner -- Play and Technology: Revised Realities and Potential Perspectives / Yasmin Bettina Kafai -- The Meaning of Play as a Human Experience / Myrdene Anderson -- No Learning by Coercion: Paidia and Paideia in Platonic Philosophy / Stephen R. Morris --
• Play, Proteus, and Paradox: Education for a Chaotic and Supersymmetric World / Karen Vander Ven -- Play Development from Birth to Age Four / Barbara P. Garner -- Play Development from Ages Four to Eight / James E. Johnson -- Play Development from Ages Eight to Twelve / M. Lee Manning -- Play and Language: Individual Differences as Evidence of Development and Style / Cecilia Shore -- Language and Play: Natural Partners / Jane Ilene Freeman Davidson -- Gender Identity and Play / Beverly I. Fagot and Leslie Leve -- Play as the Language of Children's Feelings / Garry Landreth and Linda Homeyer -- The Role of Play in Assessment / Rebecca Fewell and Michelle Glick -- Can I Play Too? Reflections on the Issues for Children with Disabilities / Gayle Mindes -- City Play / Amanda Dargan and Steve Zeitlin -- Children's Outdoor Play: An Endangered Activity / Mary S. Rivkin -- Perspectives on Play in Playgrounds / Joe L. Frost and Irma C. Woods --
• School-Based Play and Social Interactions: Opportunities and Limitations / Jeffrey Trawick-Smith -- Play as Ritual in Health Care Settings / Laura Gaynard -- Adult Direct and Indirect Influences on Play / Wendy Haight -- Peer and Sibling Influences on Play / Sherri Oden and Jennifer A. Hall -- Adult Influences on Play: The Vygotskian Approach / Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong -- Intergenerational Play: Parents and Children / Mary Martin Patton -- Play between Generations: Grandparents and Children / Carol Seefeldt -- Games, Achievement, and the Mastery of Social Skills / Peter J. Freitag -- Fantasy and Imagination / Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer -- Challenge and Risk-Taking in Play / Tom Jambor -- Play as a Context for Humor Development / Doris Bergen -- Sociocultural Influences on Gender-Role Behaviors in Children's Play / Alice Sterling Honig -- Play with Violence: Understanding and Responding Effectively / Diane Levin --
• The Meanings in Play with Objects / Shirley K. Morgenthaler -- Social Play / Robert J. Coplan and Kenneth H. Rubin -- Sociodramatic Play: Pretending Together / Patricia Monighan Nourot -- Constructive Play / George Forman -- Rough-and-Tumble Play from Childhood through Adolescence: Differing Perspectives / Anthony D. Pellegrini -- Games with Rules / Rheta DeVries -- Sport as Play (and Work) / Dan C. Hilliard -- Transcendence in the Play of Remembrance / William R. Myers -- Play in the Visual Arts: One Photographer's Way-of-Working / Hilary A. Johnson -- The Playful Ways of the Performing Artist / Anne L. Wennerstrand -- At Play in the Field of Archaeology / Susan S. Lukesh -- Playfulness in the Biological Sciences / Roger Ganschow and Leonore Ganschow -- Sociologists and Play Research / Donald E. Lytle -- Chemists and Play / Elizabeth Kean -- The Playful Ways of Mathematicians' Work / Sharon Whitton --
• Mixing Business with Pleasure: Play in the World of Work / Lynette Unger -- Play among Education Professionals / Joan P. Isenberg -- Play by Newspaper Journalists and Editors / Ellen C. Creager -- Use of Play in the Law / Christopher E. Mengel -- Playfulness in Medicine: A Pediatric Perspective / Debra Esernio-Jenssen and Victor Turow -- Electronically Mediated Playscapes / Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. -- Advocacy for the Child's Right to Play / Marcy Guddemi, Tom Jambor and Robin Moore -- Educational Implications of Play with Computers / Steven B. Silvern -- Emerging and Future Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings of Play / Doris Bergen and Doris Pronin Fromberg.

ISBN

081531745X (alk. paper)

LCCN

97045203

OCLC

ocm37980662

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries