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Play and the social context of development in early care and education
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- Creator
- edited by Barbara Scales ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, [1991]
- ©1991
- Physical Details
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- xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807730669, 0807730661, 9780807730676, 080773067X
- OCLC
- ocm22732776
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Paul Mussen -- Introduction / Barbara Scales, Millie Almy, Agelki Nicolopoulou and Susan Ervin-Tripp -- Pt. I. Framing Our Concerns -- 1. Defending Play in the Lives of Children / Barbara Scales, Millie Almy, Ageliki Nicolopoulou and Susan Ervin-Tripp -- 2. Policy Issues Surrounding Quality and Content in Early Care and Education / W. Norton Grubb -- 3. Here They Come: Ready or Not! Report of the California School Readiness Task Force / Doris O. Smith -- 4. Perspectives from the Field: Teachers and Parents Respond to the Call for Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Primary Grades / Lyda Beardsley -- Pt. II. Language, Literacy, and the Social Worlds of Children -- 5. The Research Perspective: Looking at Play Through Case Studies / Celia Genishi -- 6. Play in Language Development / Susan Ervin-Tripp -- 7. The Roots of Literacy Development: Play, Pictures, and Peers / Anne Haas Dyson -- 8. Perspectives from the Field / Marian K. Altman and Wendy Fong -- Pt. III. Play, Cognitive Development, and the Social World -- 9. Play, Cognitive Development, and the Social World: The Research Perspective / Ageliki Nicolopoulou -- 10. The Social Organization of Early Number Development / Geoffrey B. Saxe, Maryl Gearhart and Steven R. Guberman -- 11. Action, Talk, and Thought in Block Play / Stuart Reifel and June Yeatman -- 12. Constructive Play: A Window into the Mind of the Preschooler / Ageliki Nicolopoulou -- 13. Perspectives from the Field: Play and Paradox / Patricia Monighan Nourot -- Pt. IV. Play and the Social Worlds of Children -- 14. Children's Construction of "Childness" / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- 15. Social Interactions in the Preschool and the Development of Moral and Social Concepts / Larry Nucci and Melanie Killen -- 16. Peer Play and Socialization in Two Cultures: Implications for Research and Practice / William A. Corsaro and Katherine Schwarz -- 17. Questioning the Schoolroom: A Teacher's Perspective / Rebecca Tracy -- Afterword / Barbara Scales, Millie Almy, Ageliki Nicolopoulou and Susan Ervin-Tripp