Preface
1. Introduction
PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLAY FROM INFANCY THROUGH LATE
CHILDHOOD
2. The Emergence of Play in Infancy and the Toddler Years
3. Play in Early Childhood: The Golden Age of Make-Believe
4. Play in Late Childhood: Rule-Governed Play
5. Children′s Humor
PART II: REVOLUTIONS IN CHILDREN′S PLAY
6. Electronic Play: Computer, Console, and Video Games
7. Organized Youth Sports
PART III: MAJOR SETTINGS FOR CHILDREN′S PLAY
8. Home and Outdoor Play
9. Schooling and Play
PART IV: THERAPEUTIC USES OF PLAY
10. Restorative Play in Stressful Environments
11. Play Therapy
Web Resources
References
W. George Scarlett is senior lecturer and deputy chair of the
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at
Tufts University. He received a BA from Yale University, an MDiv
from the Episcopal Divinity School, and a PhD (in developmental
psychology) from Clark University. He has authored or co-authored
six books and co-edited the Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual
Development (published by SAGE). His second most recent book was
Approaches to Behavior and Classroom Management (also published by
SAGE). He has been the lead author or co-author of chapters in The
Handbook of Child Psychology and The Handbook of Life-Span
Development – both leading resources for professionals conducting
research on children and adolescents. In addition, he has published
numerous articles on a variety of subjects pertaining to children,
including articles on behavior management, and he has been on the
research teams of several internationally known leaders, including
Ed Zigler at Yale (early research on Head Start) and Howard Gardner
at Harvard (early research on multiple intelligences). He has
served as a consultant to the Cambridge, Somerville, and Lowell
Head Start systems in Massachusetts and directed a residential
summer camp for children with emotional and behavioural disorders.
Currently, he is a regular consultant to reporters and news
agencies, communicating to the general public best practices for
raising and educating children and youth. At Tufts, in addition to
his administrative duties as the department’s deputy chair, he
teaches courses on approaches to problem behavior, children’s play,
and spiritual development, and writes a column, “Kids These Days,”
for Tufts Magazine.
Sophie Naudeau is a graduate of Sorbonne University and a former
Fulbright fellow. She has extensive fieldwork experience with
refugee children in diverse cultures (Bosnia; Guinea-Conakry;
Sierra Leone; Thailand and Cambodia) and currently writes and
conducts research on resilience and children’s play among
war-affected children and children of prisoners.
Dorothy Salonius-Pasternak is a graduate of Wesleyan University and
was formerly affiliated with the National Research Institute in
Finland and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Currently, she conducts
research on adolescents with diabetes through the Harvard Medical
School, Joslin Diabetes Clinic and Tufts University.
Iris Ponte is a graduate of Holy Cross College and a former Watson
Scholar. She has conducted extensive research in preschools in the
United Kingdom, Taiwan, China, Japan and Newfoundland and has
worked for Sesame Street Research at the Children’s Television
Workshop in New York.
"This is the most clearly self aware of the several current works
in the psychology of children′s play. It has the unique worth of
being unusually comprehensive with respect to play stages, gender
differences, private lives, neighborhoods, humor, collections,
video games, responses to stress and the uses of recess and play
therapy. I particularly liked the demonstration of the continuing
role of make believe from early childhood on into the theatric,
literary, and electronic foci of adolescence. These four authors
are to be congratulated for having brought us as students and as
parents an unusually readable text."
*Brian Sutton-Smith*
"The authors′ treatment of play is both original and provocative.
Unlike most previous expositions on play, they consider not only
the social and cognitive dimensions of play but also its aesthetic
nature. The treatment of youth sport was especially impressive.
This is a ′must read′ for students of play."
*Anthony D. Pellegrini*
"Children′s Play combines uncompromising scholarship with fresh,
joyful prose. By looking at both the structure and content of play
the authors help us understand the developmental significance of
this complex way of being in the world. Each chapter contains
exactly the topics we want to study and adds surprises that counter
the folk-psychology of today. Children′s Play does more than
overview the research literature; it engenders new thinking."
*George E. Forman, Ph.D.*
"Enlivened with illustrations and case studies, this book gives an
exceptionally readable account of the development of children’s
play from infancy through to adolescence. It also branches out to
include humor, sports, and modern developments in electronic games,
as well as uses of play in therapy. It will be a great resource for
practitioners and play workers, and indeed for parents who wish to
be informed of current thinking and research."
*Peter K. Smith*
"Readers who are parents and students interested in examining and
learning about the complexities of children′s play will find
this book wonderfully educational. The vocabulary and language used
in this book is clear and easily understandable to those reading at
the college level. The authors′ optimistic and energetic
description of children′s play makes reading this book effortless.
The information in this book leads its readers to a provocative
examination of their own play experiences and those of the children
around them. Readers will feel stimulated and tempted to
engage in further exploration in this fascinating area of study by
the content and concepts presented in this splendid book."
*Springer*
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