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Why people play

Title
Why people play / M.J. Ellis.
Author
Ellis, Michael J., 1936-
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., ©1973.

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Description
xiv, 173 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This book ... is designed to influence the provisions for play in the home, in the day-care or child development center, in the school, and in the provision of adult leisure services ... It is a critical analysis of the content and assumptions of the many theories or explanations for play behavior."--Page xii.
Subject
  • Play > Psychological aspects
  • Leisure
  • Child psychology
  • Recreation
  • Play
  • Leisure Activities
  • Play and Playthings
  • Psychology, Child
  • leisure
  • recreation
  • play (recreation)
  • Recreation
  • Play
  • Child psychology
  • Leisure
  • Play > Psychological aspects
  • Freizeit
  • Spiel
  • Spel
  • Psychologische aspecten
  • Freizeit
  • Spiel
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 149-160.
Contents
Preface -- A purview of the problems -- Definitions of play -- Classical theories of play -- Recent theories of play -- Modern theories of play -- An integration -- Implications for practice.
ISBN
  • 0139589910
  • 9780139589911
LCCN
72006597
OCLC
  • ocm00379430
  • 379430
  • SCSB-146645
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library