The Excellence Of Play [WorldCat Entities]

""Play as a powerful learning and teaching experience remains key to effective early childhood education. Retaining its popular approach and style, this new edition reflects the contemporary context of early childhood education and care as well as emerging research on young children's development. The emphasis remains firmly on demonstrating the excellence of play and its contribution to children's overall learning and development in the early years, and the role of adults in promoting inspirational playful pedagogies. This edition offers new coverage on topics such as brain development, gender, babies' play, cultural diversity and inclusion, children as researchers, new technologies, outdoor play and international dimensions. Key features include: a chapter overview giving a brief outline of aims and purpose; Lively and meaningful cameos to help bring the themes and issues to life; Content drawing on the cameos to help link research, theory and practice; Reflective questions to raise awareness of, and reflection on, the issues; Useful websites and further reading. This is a must-read book for all students studying early childhood at a range of levels and practitioners who are looking to deepen their understanding of play and playful practices"--Book jacket."
"Aims to support those who work in early childhood education and care in developing and implementing the highest quality play experiences for children from birth to middle childhood. This book portrays children as social and active agents in their own play and provides background to research on play theory and practice."@en
"The Excellence of Play highlights the importance of play as a tool for learning and teaching, for children and practitioners."
"The Excellence of Play highlights the importance of play as a tool for learning and teaching, for children and practitioners."@en
"This second edition encapsulates the many changes that have taken place in early childhood in the last ten years. Whilst retaining its original message of the vital importance of play as a tool for learning, it consolidates this further with current evidence from research and practice."
"This second edition of "The Excellence of Play" encapsulates all the many changes that have taken place in early childhood in the last ten years. Whilst retaining its original message of the vital importance of play as a tool for learning and teaching for children and practitioners, it consolidates this further with current evidence from research and practice and links the most effective practice with the implementation of recent policies. Its intention is to support all those who work in early childhood education and care in developing and implementing the highest quality play experiences for children from birth to middle childhood. All the contributors are real experts in their fields and all are passionate about the excellence of play. Many new contributions appear since the first edition, particularly related to the Foundation Stage curriculum, profiling, parents, birth-to-three year olds, rough and tumble play, transitions, special educational needs and outdoor play, but the importance of curriculum and assessment is retained and extended.; The book will stimulate and inform the on-going debate about play through its powerful - and on-going argument - that 'a curriculum which sanctions and utilizes play is more likely to provide well-balanced citizens of the future as well as happier and more learned children in the present'. The features of this book which are new to this edition include: many new contributions and well-known early years writers/researchers; children as social and active agents in their own play; more background to current research on play theory and practice; practitioners' roles in play; adults' enabling of play; play and links with Foundation Stage and FS Profile/legislation and policy; and, KS1 links (and beyond!). The features also include: outdoor and physical play, including rough and tumble; gender differences; play and observation/assessment; special Educational Needs and play; parents' perspectives on play; and, child development links and play.; These additions very much reflect the current situation in early years education where the roles of practitioners, parents and children themselves are receiving high focus, particularly in relation to the FS and KS1 curricula and its assessment, and the heavy emphasis now placed on outdoor play, special needs and gender issues. Contributors include: Lesley Abbott, Si n Adams, Angela Anning, Pat Broadhead, Tina Bruce, Tricia David, Dan Davies, Bernadette Duffy, Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Carey English, Hilary Fabian, Rose Griffiths, Nigel Hall, Stephanie Harding, Jane Hislam, Alan Howe, Helen Jameson, Neil Kitson, Ann Langston, Janet Moyles, Theodora Papatheodorou, Linda Pound, Sacha Powell, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Peter K. Smith, and, David Whitebread."