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Play and the social context of development in early care and education

Title
Play and the social context of development in early care and education / edited by Barbara Scales [and others].
Publication
New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, ©1991.

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Additional Authors
Scales, Barbara, 1930-
Description
xi, 275 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Early childhood education series
Uniform Title
Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press)
Subject
  • Play
  • Education, Preschool > United States
  • Education, Preschool > California > Case studies
  • Cognition in children
  • Play and Playthings
  • play (recreation)
  • Education, Preschool
  • Kleinkinderziehung
  • Spiel
  • Educacao pre-escolar
  • California
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Barbara Scales [and others] -- Part I. Framing our concerns -- Defending play in the lives of children / Barbara Scales [and others] -- Policy issues surrounding quality and content in early care and education / W. Norton Grubb -- Here they come : ready or not! Report of the California School Readiness Task Force / Doris O. Smith -- Perspectives from the field : teachers and parents respond to the call for developmentally appropriate practice in primary grades / Lyda Beardsley -- Part II. Language, literacy, and the social worlds of children -- The research perspective : looking at play through case studies / Celia Genishi -- Play in language development / Susan Ervin-Tripp -- The roots of literacy development : play, pictures, and peers / Anne Haas Dyson -- Perspectives from the field / Marian K. Altman and Wendy Fong -- Part III. Play, cognitive development, and the social world -- Play, cognitive development, and the social world : the research perspective / Ageliki Nicolopoulou -- The social organization of early number development / Geoffrey B. Saxe, Maryl Gearhart, Steven R. Guberman -- Action, talk, and thought in block play / Stuart Reifel and June Yeatman -- Constructive play : a window into the mind of the preschooler / Ageliki Nicolopoulou -- Perspectives from the field : play and paradox / Patricia Monighan Nourot -- Part IV. Play and the social worlds of children -- Children's construction of "childness" / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Social interactions in the preschool and the development of moral and social concepts / Larry Nucci and Melanie Killen -- Peer play and socialization in two cultures : implications for research and practice / William A. Corsaro and Katherine Schwarz -- Questioning the schoolroom : a teacher's perspective / Rebecca Tracy -- Afterword / Barbara Scales [and others].
ISBN
  • 0807730661
  • 9780807730669
  • 080773067X
  • 9780807730676
  • 0807730653
  • 9780807730652
LCCN
90022934
OCLC
  • ocm22732776
  • 22732776
  • SCSB-1930096
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library