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Engaging play /

Contributor(s): Brooker, Liz, 1946- | Edwards, Susan, 1975-.
Publisher: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York : Open University Press, 2010Description: xix, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780335235858 (hbk.); 9780335235858; 0335235859 (hbk.); 9780335235865 (pbk.); 0335235867 (pbk.).Subject(s): Early childhood education | PlayDDC classification: 372.21
Contents:
Introduction: from challenging to engaging play / Liz Brooker and Susan Edwards -- Reconceptualizing the play-pedagogy relationship: from control to complexity / Elizabeth Wood -- Whose goals and interests? The interface of children's play and teachers' pedagogical practices / Helen Hedges -- Learning to play, or playing to learn? Children's participation in the cultures of home and settings / Liz Brooker -- Reflecting the child: play memories and images of the child / Anette Sandberg and Tuula Vuorinen -- Conceptual and contextual intersubjectivity for affording concept formation in children's play / Marilyn Fleer -- New maps for old terrain: creating a postdevelopmental logic of gender and sexuality in the early years / Mindy Blaise -- Co-constructing knowledge: children, teachers and families engaging in a science-rich curriculum / Barbara Jordan -- Postdevelopmentalism and professional learning: implications for understanding the relationship between play and pedagogy / Andrea Nolan and Anna Kilderry -- Who gets to play? Peer groups, power and play in early childhood settings / Annica Löfdahl -- Framing play for learning: professional reflections on the role of open-ended play in early childhood education / Susan Edwards, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie and Elizabeth Hunt -- Powerful pedagogies and playful resistance: role play in the early childhood classroom / Sue Rogers -- Using power on the playground / Brian Edmiston and Tim Taylor -- Let the wild rumpus begin! The radical possibilities of play for young children with disabilities / Leigh M. O'Brien -- Children's enculturation through play / Bert van Oers -- Playing with some tensions: poststructuralism, Foucault and early childhood education / Jo Ailwood -- Afterword / Susan Edwards and Liz Brooker.
Summary: This text takes a detailed look at the complex area of young children's play as it is understood in the early 21st century, and in particular at the relationships between play, learning and teaching which are enacted in early childhood settings.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 372.21 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Lost Checked out 03/05/2017 0078870
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: from challenging to engaging play / Liz Brooker and Susan Edwards -- Reconceptualizing the play-pedagogy relationship: from control to complexity / Elizabeth Wood -- Whose goals and interests? The interface of children's play and teachers' pedagogical practices / Helen Hedges -- Learning to play, or playing to learn? Children's participation in the cultures of home and settings / Liz Brooker -- Reflecting the child: play memories and images of the child / Anette Sandberg and Tuula Vuorinen -- Conceptual and contextual intersubjectivity for affording concept formation in children's play / Marilyn Fleer -- New maps for old terrain: creating a postdevelopmental logic of gender and sexuality in the early years / Mindy Blaise -- Co-constructing knowledge: children, teachers and families engaging in a science-rich curriculum / Barbara Jordan -- Postdevelopmentalism and professional learning: implications for understanding the relationship between play and pedagogy / Andrea Nolan and Anna Kilderry -- Who gets to play? Peer groups, power and play in early childhood settings / Annica Löfdahl -- Framing play for learning: professional reflections on the role of open-ended play in early childhood education / Susan Edwards, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie and Elizabeth Hunt -- Powerful pedagogies and playful resistance: role play in the early childhood classroom / Sue Rogers -- Using power on the playground / Brian Edmiston and Tim Taylor -- Let the wild rumpus begin! The radical possibilities of play for young children with disabilities / Leigh M. O'Brien -- Children's enculturation through play / Bert van Oers -- Playing with some tensions: poststructuralism, Foucault and early childhood education / Jo Ailwood -- Afterword / Susan Edwards and Liz Brooker.

This text takes a detailed look at the complex area of young children's play as it is understood in the early 21st century, and in particular at the relationships between play, learning and teaching which are enacted in early childhood settings.

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