Exploring Play for Early Childhood Studies
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Exploring Play for Early Childhood Studies

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Exploring Play for Early Childhood Studies

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About This Book

Winner of the 2013 Nursery World Awards!


This is a key text for all those studying for degrees and foundation degrees in early childhood, early years and related disciplines and for candidates on EYPS pathways. It takes the reader through a detailed exploration of the nature of play examining the features and the concepts of play. Guidance on the observation of children?s play is included and the text encourages students to appreciate the value of play in development and in socialisation. Children?s rights and the ownership of play are also covered. With interactive activities and case studies throughout, the text helps students to arrive at an understanding of their own practice in relation to play.

About the Early Years series

This series has been designed to support students of Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines in popular modules of their course. Each text takes a focused look at a specific topic and approaches it in an accessible and user-friendly way. Features have been developed to help readers engage with the text and understand the subject from a number of different viewpoints. Activities pose questions to prompt thought and discussion and ?Theory Focus? boxes examine essential theory close-up for better understanding. This series is also applicable to EYPS candidates on all pathways.

Other titles in the series are Early Childhood Studies, Childhood in Society for Early Childhood Studies and Child Observation for the Early Years.

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Publisher
Learning Matters
Year
2012
ISBN
9780857256867
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Elementary Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. The Author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Part 1 What is Play?
  10. 1 Identifying Features of Play
  11. 2 Understanding Concepts of Play
  12. 3 Historical Perspectives and Principles
  13. 4 Observing Play
  14. Part 2 The Benefits of Play
  15. 5 The Value of Play in Child Development
  16. 6 Play and Social Development
  17. 7 Play, Creativity and Risk
  18. 8 Contexts for Play
  19. Part 3 Children's Rights and the Ownership of Play
  20. 9 The Ownership of Play: Play Space, Play Cues and Play Actions
  21. 10 Developing a Pedagogy for Play
  22. 11 Conclusion: Play is for Life, not Just for Nursery
  23. Time Line
  24. References
  25. Index