Play as Engagement and Communication (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Nwokah, Eva E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series. Students, play scholars, and play practitioners will gain information from groundbreaking studies, philosophical treatises, and in-depth reviews of current knowledge on child-child, child-adult, and child-animal play. Play and Culture Studies is the main publication of The Association for the Study of Play. Volume 10 includes such topics as student experiences with child play in hospitals, ethnographic studies of preschool play, and the connection between children and animals. The primary focus of the papers in this volume is to reflect on the close relationship between play and the process of engaging and communicating with others in different contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761884385
• Artikelnr.: 75136813

Autorenporträt

Eva E. Nwokah is an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has held faculty and clinical positions in four countries. Her research interests are in language, play, narrative skills, and social interaction in families, between mothers and infants, and child peer interaction. Her recent work has focused on humor and language play in social interaction. She has been actively involved in local adolescent parenting programs and the implementation of clinical and educational support for language and literacy intervention with high-risk families.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 I. Child Play with Adults and with Animals
Chapter 4 1. The Therapuetic Benefits of Play for Hospitalized Children
Chapter 5 2. Play between Children and Domestic Animals
Chapter 6 3. Mothers' Social and Didactic Actions during Play: Contribution
of Infant Affect
Part 7 II. The Complexities of Child-Child Play in Different Contexts
Chapter 8 4. The Reality of Pretend Play: Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Gender
Variations in Young Children's Involvement
Chapter 9 5. Children's Pretend Play with Media-Based Toys
Chapter 10 6. Young Children's Emotional Responses to Cheating in Game Play
Chapter 11 7. Contribution of Theory of Mind to Pretend Play: Concordance
between Preschool Play Partners
Part 12 III. Teacher Support for Play in Educational Settings
Chapter 13 8. Rough and Tumble Play in Early Childhood Settings: Challenges
for Personnel Training
Chapter 14 9. The Teacher's Role in Enhancing Sociodramatic Play in Early
Childhood Classrooms: A Study in Head Start Classrooms
Part 15 IV. Reflections on the Nature of Play
Chapter 16 10. Play as Ascending Meaning Revisited: Four Types of Assertive
Play
Chapter 17 Contributors
Chapter 18 Subject Index