Play from Birth to Twelve

Doris Fromberg is Professor and Chairperson, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hofstra University. Doris Bergen is Professor and Director of the Center for Human Development, Learning, and Teaching at Miami University of Ohio.

Historical contexts of child's play; play as children see it; play and technology; sociologists and play research; playful ways of the performing artist; play among education professionals; infant and toddler play; play and language; gender identity and play; language of children's feelings; role of play in assessment; structuring the study of play; pretending together; meaning in play with objects; constructive play; games with rules; city play; play as ritual in health care settings; peer and sibling influences on play; play between generations; challenge and risk-taking in play; play with violence; educational implications of play with computers. (Part contents).