SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood (eBook)

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Play and Learning - Mindy Blaise, Susan Edwards and Liz Brooker
Foundations of Play Theory - Doris Bergen
Play in the Non-Classical Psychology of L.S. Vygotsky - Elena Kravtsova
Children’s Play as Cultural Activity - Suzanne Gaskins
Make-Believe Play and Self-Regulation - Adena Meyers and Laura Berk
Cultural-historical Perspectives on Play: Central Ideas - Bert van Oers
Postcolonial and Anti-Racist Approaches to Understanding Play - Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
New Materialisms and Play - Hillevi Lenz Taguchi
Childhood Studies and Play - Sue Saltmarsh
Ethical dimensions and perspectives on play - Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle
Gender Discourses and Play - Mindy Blaise
Studying Play through New Research Practices - Liz Jones and Rachel Holmes
Part II: Play and Learning in Pedagogy, Curriculum and Assessment - Susan Edwards, Liz Brooker and Mindy Blaise
The Play-Pedagogy Interface in Contemporary Debates - Elizabeth Wood
Developmental Play in the Classroom - Stuart Reifel
Children’s play and learning and developmental pedagogy - Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson and Niklas Pramling
Play Provisions and Pedagogy in Curricular Approaches - James Johnson
Children’s content learning in play provision: Competing tensions and future possibilities - Helen Hedges
Professional Preparation for a Pedagogy of Play - Sharon Ryan and Kaitlin Northey-Berg
Learning Mathematics Through Play - Anita Wager and Amy Parks
Play as the precursor for literacy development - Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson
Understanding Narrative as a Key Aspect of Play - Pentti Hakkarainen and Milda Bredikyte
Physical play and development - Michelle Tannock
Play and Playfulness: Issues of Assessment - Margaret Carr
Part III: Contexts for Play and Learning - Liz Brooker, Mindy Blaise and Susan Edwards
Whose Play? Children, Play and Consumption - Daniel Cook
Children’s Right to Play - Stuart Lester and Wendy Russell
Infant and Toddler Play - Jennifer Sumsion and Linda Harrison
Children’s Perspectives on Play - Johanna Einarsdottir
Digital Play - Christine Stephen and Lydia Plowman
Play in Peer Cultures - Annica Löfdahl
The Impact of Race and Culture on Play in Early Childhood Classrooms - Jennifer Keys Adair and Fabienne Doucet
Playfulness and the co-construction of identity in the first years - Rod Parker-Rees
Connecting home and educational play: interventions that support children’s learning - Maria Evangelou and Mary Wild
Opportunities and affordances in outdoor play - Margaret Kernan
Media, popular culture and play - Jackie Marsh