| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Relational perspectives book series |
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Relational perspectives book series.
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| Contents |
Theories of play -- Child development through play / Stephanie Creekpaum -- Pretend play in the classroom : helping children grow / Sandra W. Russ & Alexis W. Lee -- Understanding play -- Play as communication / Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto -- From reaction to reflection : mentalizating in early childhood education / Norka Malberg -- Play in the classroom -- Play in the emotional and cognitive life of a preschooler / Steve Tuber -- Being a playful teacher / Peter Blake -- Mine! no, mine!! interaction in children's play / Jill Bellinson -- Techniques of play -- Art-making experiences for young children affected by traumatic experiences / Ann-Marie Mott -- Young children's musicality : relating with rhythm / Sophie Alcock -- Promoting identity development through memory narratives / Elaine Reese and Tia Neha -- Specialized needs for play -- Trauma and identity / Marilyn Charles -- Working with difficult and hard to understand children / Ionas Sapountzis -- Culture and play -- Creating reflective space in the classroom / Ana Archangelo and Fabio Camargo Bandera Villela -- Cultural issues in relation to play for teachers / Athena Drewes -- Culture and play as key elements of identity formation and academic performance for children of color in primary education / Kirkland C. Vaughans and Renee Vaughans -- Teachers and play -- Engaging children in healing work / Michael O¿Loughlin -- Teacher stress : impact, challenges, and solutions / Deborah Mugno and Jennifer Reid -- Afterword / Jill Bellinson -- Index |
| Summary |
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play in terms useful to early childhood educators. The book explicitly links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering accessible information that can help teachers better understand the meanings of children's expressive acts. Contributors from education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom. They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for teachers and other professionals. The Imprtance of Play in Early Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and developmental psychologists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Child development.
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Play.
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play (recreation)
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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EDUCATION -- Preschool & Kindergarten.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Child.
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Early childhood education
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Play
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Charles, Marilyn, editor
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Bellinson, Jill, editor
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| LC no. |
2019980378 |
| ISBN |
9781315180090 |
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131518009X |
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9781351718301 |
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1351718304 |
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9781351718318 |
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1351718312 |
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9781351718295 |
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1351718290 |
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