Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Routledge, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xxi, 455 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Uniform Title

Play from birth to twelve and beyond.

Subjects

• Play > Social aspects
• Child development

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Play from birth to twelve and beyond / edited by Doris Pronin Fromberg. 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Play development from birth to age four / Barbara P. Garner and Doris Bergen -- 2. Play development from ages four to eight / James E. Johnson -- 3. Play development from ages eight to twelve / M. Lee Manning -- 4. Language and play : natural partners / Jane Ilene Freeman Davidson -- 5. Gender identity and play / Melanie Ayres and Leslie D. Leve -- 6. Play as the language of children's feelings / Garry Landreth, Linda Homeyer and Mary Morrison -- 7. Play in the context of life-span human development / Valeria J. Freysinger -- 8. The meanings in play with objects / Shirley K. Morgenthaler -- 9. Social and nonsocial play / Robert J. Coplan, Kenneth H. Rubin and Leanne C. Findlay -- 10. Sociodramatic play pretending together / Patricia Monighan Nourot -- 11. Constructive play / George Forman -- 12. Rough-and-tumble play from childhood through adolescence : differing perspectives / Anthony D. Pellegrini -- 13. Games with rules / Rheta DeVries -- 14. Play as children see it / Nancy W. Wiltz and Greta G. Fein -- 15. Play as a context for humor development / Doris Bergen -- 16. Play's pathways to meaning : a dynamic theory of play / Doris Pronin Fromberg -- 17. Adult influences on play : the Vygotskian approach / Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong -- 18. Social play in school / Jeffrey Trawick-Smith -- 19. Play as a medium for literacy development / James F. Christie -- 20. Play and mathematics at ages one to ten / Constance Kamii and Yasuhiko Kato -- 21. Scientific inquiry and exploratory representational play / Christopher R. Wolfe, R. Hays Cummins and Christopher A. Myers -- 22. Play and technology : revised realities and potential perspectives / Yasmin B. Kafai -- 23. Educational implications of play with computers / Steven B. Silvern -- 24. The role of play in assessment / Michelle Glick Gross -- 25. Reconciling play and assessment standards : how to leave no child behind / Doris Bergen -- 26. Play in historical and cross-cultural contexts / Donna R. Barnes -- 27. Influences of race, cultural, social class, and gender : diversity and play / Patricia G. Ramsey -- 28. Parent-child and child-child play in diverse cultural contexts / Jaipul L. Roopnarine and Aimbika Krishnakumar -- 29. Can I play too? Reflections on the issues for children with disabilities / Gayle Mindes -- 30. Sibling and peer influences on play / Sherri Oden -- 31. A sociocultural perspective of parent-child play / Wendy Haight -- 32. City play / Amanda Dargan and Steve Zeitlin -- 33. Children's outdoor play : an endangered activity / Mary S. Rivkin -- 34. Perspectives on play and playgrounds / Joe L. Frost and Irma C. Woods -- 35. Play as ritual in health care settings / Laura Gaynard -- 36. Clinical perspectives on play / Karen Gitlin-Weiner -- 37. Fantsay and imagination / Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer -- 38. Sociocultural influences on gender-role behaviors in children's play / Alice Sterling Honig -- 39. Play and violence : understanding and responding effectively / Diane E. Levin -- 40. Attaining the protean self in a rapidly changing world : understanding chaos through play / Karen VanderVen -- Epilogue : emerging and future contexts, perspectives, and meanings for play / Doris Bergen and Doris Pronin Fromberg.

ISBN

• 0415951119 (hb : alk. paper)
• 0415951127 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005036288
• 9780415951111
• 9780415951128

OCLC

• ocm62728526
• SCSB-5286905

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries