The excellence of play / edited by Janet R. Moyles.
Contributor(s): Moyles, Janet R
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BookPublisher: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1994Description: x, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0335190685 .Subject(s): Play | Early childhood education -- CurriculaDDC classification: 372.21 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 372.21 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00071327 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 372.21 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00071328 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Anyone who has observed play for any length of time wil recognize that, for young children, play is a tool for learning. Professionals who understand, acknowledge, and appreciate this can, through provision, interaction and intervention in children's play, ensure progression, differentiation and relevance in the curriculum. "The Excellence of Play" gathers together authoritative contributors to provide a wide-ranging and key source text reflecting both up-to-date research and current classroom practice. It tackles how we conceptualize play, how we 'place' it in the classroom, how we relate it to the curriculum, and how we evaluate its role in learning in the early years. It should stimulate and inform debate through its argument that 'a curriculum which sanctions and utilizes play is more likely to provide well-balanced citizens of the future as well as happier children in the present'.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.
Part 1: The culture of play and childhood -- Part 2: Play, schooling and responsibilities -- Part 3: Play and the early years curriculum -- Part 4: Assessing and evaluating play.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 The culture of play and childhood
- Play and the Uses of Play Play in Different Cultures and Different Childhoods Sex
- Differentiated Play Experiences and Childrens Choices Play, the Playground and the Culture of Childhood
- Part 2 Play, schooling and responsibilities Play and Legislated Curriculum
- Play is Ace! Fantasy Play - A Case for Adult Intervention Making Play Work in the Classroom
- Part 3 Play and the early years curriculum Play, Literacy and the Role of the Teacher Experiential
- Learning in Play and Art Bulbs, Buzzers and Batteries - Play and Science Mathematics and Play
- Part 4 Assessing and evaluating play Evaluating and Improving the Quality of Play Observing
- Play in Early Childhood Play, the Universe and Everything