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Children's Play and Development Cultural-Historical Perspectives

This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schousboe, Ivy (Editor), Winther-Lindqvist, Ditte (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
Subjects:
Educational Psychology
Early Childhood Education
Sociology Of Education
Educational Sociology
Developmental Psychology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Children’s Play and Development; Ivy Schousboe and Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
  • 2. The Structure of Fantasy Play and its Implications for Good and Evil Games; Ivy Schousboe
  • 3. Playing with Social Identities; Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
  • 4. Pedagogical Perspectives on Play; Daniela Cecchin
  • 5. Collective Imagining in Play; Marilyn Fleer
  • 6. ‘Las Divinas’. Play and Emotions in a Mexican Telenovela Performance; Gloria Quiñones
  • 7. A Cultural-Historical Study of Children’s Collective Imagination in Play: A Preschooler’s Bilingual Heritage Language Development; Liang Li
  • 8. Language Play: The Development of Linguistic Consciousness and Creative Speech in Early Childhood Education; Niklas Pramling and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
  •  9. Play to Learn, Learn to Play – Boundary Crossing Within Zones of Proximal Development; Lars Rossen
  • 10. Online Adolescence. Real Life Development in the Virtual World of Warcraft; Halfdan Fryd Koot and Hernik Garde
  • 11. Playing in Online Chat Communities; Morten Jack
  • 12. The Persistence of Play and What-If Thinking; Ivy Schousboe
  • 13. Cultural and Historical Influences on Conceptions and Uses of Play; Ivy Schousboe
  • 14. An Activity Theory View on the Development of Playing; Bert van Oers
  • 15. Play, but not Simply Play – the Anthropology of Play; Benny Karpatschof.      

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