Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of diagrams xii
List of photographs xiii
List of tables xiv
Introduction 1
A 11
Active learning through play 11
Adult-initiated/guided play 13
Adult play 14
Assessment and play 15
Autotelic activity 17
B 19
Baby play 19
Behaviours and play 21
Brain studies/neuroscience and play 22
C 26
Child-initiated play 26
Cognitive play and learning and metacognition 28
Consumerism/commercialism and play 30
Creativity and play 33
Culture and play 34
Curriculum and play 36
D 41
Decision-making and play 41
Deep-level learning and play 42
Dispositions to play and learning 44
E 47
Emotional development and play 47
Environments for play 48
Exploratory/epistemic play 50
F 54
First-hand experience (see also exploratory/epistemic play) 54
Flow/free-flow play 56
Forest School and play 57
Fun 59
G 62
Games play 62
Gender and play 64
H 67
Health and play 67
Heuristic play 69
Humour and play 70
I 74
Iconic and symbolic learning and play 74
Imaginative play/imaginary friends 75
Inclusion, equality and play 76
Independence and self-regulation in play 78
J 82
Jargon of play 82
'Junk' (found/recycled materials) and play 82
K 84
Key Persons and play 84
Kinaesthetic play 85
L 88
Language and communication play 88
Listening to children at play 90
Ludic play 92
M 93
Mastery play 93
Messy play 95
Moral development and play 96
Motivation and play 97
N 100
Narrative play and story 100
Natural world and play 101
Negotiation skills and play 103
O 106
Object play 106
Outdoor play 107
Ownership 109
P 112
Parents and play 112
Photography and play 113
Physical play 114
Planning for play/playfulness 115
Q 119
Quality play 119
Questioning 120
Quiet play 121
R 123
Recapitulative play 123
Reflecting on play 123
Risk/risky play 124
Role-play/pretend play/fantasy play 127
Rough and tumble 128
S 131
Schemas and play 131
Social development and play 132
Socio-dramatic play 134
Superhero play 135
Symbolic play 136
T 139
Technology and play 139
Therapeutic (cathartic) play 141
Transformational play 142
Types of play 143
U 147
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - right to play 147
Universality of play 149
V 151
Values in play and playfulness 151
Voice - children's voices in play 153
W 156
Wii play 156
Work/play dimensions 157
X Y Z 161
Xbox 161
Young children 161
Youth play 162
Zero-in on play 162
Zigler 163
Author Index 165
Subject Index 169
