Children's Play and Development Cultural-Historical Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schousboe, Ivy. (Editor), Winther-Lindqvist, Ditte. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International perspectives on early childhood education and development ; 8
• Subjects: Education.; Early childhood education.; Educational psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Childhood Education.; Developmental Psychology.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6579-5

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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Children<U+0019>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. <U+0018>Las Divinas<U+0019>. Play and Emotions in a Mexican Telenovela Performance; Gloria Quiǫnes
• 7. A Cultural-Historical Study of Children<U+0019>s Collective Imagination in Play: A Preschooler<U+0019>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 <U+0013> Boundary Crossing Within Zones of Proximal Development; Lars Rossen
• 10. Online Adolescence. Real Life Development in the Virtual World of Warcraft; Henrik Fryd Koot and Halfdan 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 <U+0013> the Anthropology of Play; Benny Karpatschof. .