SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Play and Learning - Mindy Blaise, Susan Edwards and Liz Brooker Foundations of Play Theory - Doris Bergen Play in the Non-Classical Psychology of L.S. Vygotsky - Elena Kravtsova Children's Play as Cultural Activity - Suzanne Gaskins Make-Believe Play and Self-Regulation - Adena Meyers and Laura Berk Cultural-historical Perspectives on Play: Central Ideas - Bert van Oers Postcolonial and Anti-Racist Approaches to Understanding Play - Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw New Materialisms and Play - Hillevi Lenz Taguchi Childhood Studies and Play - Sue Saltmarsh Ethical dimensions and perspectives on play - Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle Gender Discourses and Play - Mindy Blaise Studying Play through New Research Practices - Liz Jones and Rachel Holmes Part II: Play and Learning in Pedagogy, Curriculum and Assessment - Susan Edwards, Liz Brooker and Mindy Blaise The Play-Pedagogy Interface in Contemporary Debates - Elizabeth Wood Developmental Play in the Classroom - Stuart Reifel Children's play and learning and developmental pedagogy - Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson and Niklas Pramling Play Provisions and Pedagogy in Curricular Approaches - James Johnson Children's content learning in play provision: Competing tensions and future possibilities - Helen Hedges Professional Preparation for a Pedagogy of Play - Sharon Ryan and Kaitlin Northey-Berg Learning Mathematics Through Play - Anita Wager and Amy Parks Play as the precursor for literacy development - Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson Understanding Narrative as a Key Aspect of Play - Pentti Hakkarainen and Milda Bredikyte Physical play and development - Michelle Tannock Play and Playfulness: Issues of Assessment - Margaret Carr Part III: Contexts for Play and Learning - Liz Brooker, Mindy Blaise and Susan Edwards Whose Play? Children, Play and Consumption - Daniel Cook Children's Right to Play - Stuart Lester and Wendy Russell Infant and Toddler Play - Jennifer Sumsion and Linda Harrison Children's Perspectives on Play - Johanna Einarsdottir Digital Play - Christine Stephen and Lydia Plowman Play in Peer Cultures - Annica Loefdahl The Impact of Race and Culture on Play in Early Childhood Classrooms - Jennifer Keys Adair and Fabienne Doucet Playfulness and the co-construction of identity in the first years - Rod Parker-Rees Connecting home and educational play: interventions that support children's learning - Maria Evangelou and Mary Wild Opportunities and affordances in outdoor play - Margaret Kernan Media, popular culture and play - Jackie Marsh