The Excellence of Play

3. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-335-24095-1
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Play as a successful learning and teaching experience remains key to early education. The new edition of this popular book continues to clearly illustrate key play theories in practice. It has been comprehensively revised to include the latest research and practice in the field.

Key features include:

- Contributions from leading experts in the field who are passionate about the excellence of play

- Helpful features in every chapter including practical examples, boxed chapter summaries, cameos and end of chapter questions

- References and further reading

The new edition includes:

- A new Foreword by Wendy Scott, President of TACTYC

- 10 new chapters that reflect the latest thinking in play and early years curriculum practice

This book is essential reading for everyone working or training to work in the early years.

Contributors: Angela Anning, Pat Broadhead, Tina Bruce, Tricia David, Dan Davies, Bernadette Duffy, Aline Wendy Dunlop, Hilary Fabian, Jan Georgeson, Kathy Goouch, Rose Griffiths, Justine Howard, Alan Howe, Helen Jameson, Neil Kitson, Sara Knight, Janet Moyles, Theodora Papatheodorou, Rod Parker-Rees, Jane Payler, Linda Pound, Sacha Powell, Wendy Scott, David Whitebread, Marian Whitehead

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moyles, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction

PART 1: Setting the play context

Play and legislated curriculum: Back to basics - an alternative view

Work or play: How children learn to read the signals about activity type in today's early years provision

Permission to play

Hunting and gathering: How play helps us to let in, as well as to get in, information about the environment

PART 2: Play, language and literacy

Playing or having fun? Dilemmas in early literacy

Play beyond the Foundation Stage: storytelling, creative writing and self-regulation in able 6-7 year olds

Children's fantasy role play - why adults should join in

PART 3: Play and curriculum

Art in the early years

Playing music

Science and play

Mathematics and play

Forest School: Playing on the wild side

PART 4: Play, pedagogy and culture in early education

The developmental and therapeutic value of children's play: Re-establishing teachers as play professionals

Building friendships through playful learning in the early years

Personalising transitions: How play can help 'newly arrived children' settle into school

Play in the early years: The influence of cultural difference

Play and the achievement of potential

Play, the universe and everything!

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Janet Moyles is Professor Emeritus at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is a qualified early years teacher and has held a variety of roles including headteacher, lecturer and researcher.

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