Theory in Context and Out

Subjects:

• Education » Education (General)
• Education » Childhood & Elementary Education

Reviews:

• Scholarly analyses and reports of research from diverse disciplines amplify our understanding of play in Western and non-Western societies.
  —Adolescence Fall 2005

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Stuart Reifel
• Foundations and Theory of Play
• What Is Play For? Sexual Selection & The Evolution of Play by Garry Chick
• Reframing the Validity of Players & Play by Brian Sutton-Smith
• Play & Post Modernism by Thomas Henricks
• The Concept of Play in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutics by Kjetil Steinsholt and Eli Traasdahl
• Symbolic Play & the Evolution of Culture: A Comparative Life History Perspective by Warren P. Roberts
• Gender and Children's Play
• Boys Who Play Hopscotch: The Historical Divide of a Gendered Segregation by Derek Van Rheenen
• The Interaction of Gender & Play Style in the Development of Gender Segregation by Julie Tietz and Stephanie Shine
• Boys & Girls at Play: Recess at a Southern Urban Elementary School by Olga S. Jarrett, Beth Farokhi, Gwen Davies and Catherine Young
• Theory of Mind
• Explaining the Connection: Pretend Play and Theory of Mind by Angeline Lillard
• Imaginary Companions: Characteristic and Correlates by Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson and Lynn Gerow
• A Study of Pretend Play and False Belief in Preschool Children: Is All Pretense Metarepresentational? by Mark Neilsen and Cheryl Dissanayke
• A Developmental Link Between the Production of Gestural Representation and Understanding of Mental Representation by Thomas Suddendorf
• Pretending, Understanding, Pretense and Understanding Minds by Angeline Lillard
• Understanding the Pretense-Theory of Mind Relationship by Robert Kavanaugh
• Adult-Child Play
• Maternal Scaffolding of Taiwanese Play: Qualitative Patterns by Jui-chh Chin and Stuart Reifel
• Paternal Notions About Their Children's Playfulness & Children's Notions of Play in the United States and Hong Kong by Robyn Holmes
• Validity of Three Tests of Playfulness with African-American Children and Their Parents and Relationships Among Parental Beliefs and Values and Children's Observed Playfulness by Carolyn Porter and Anita Bundy
• Attitudes of Parents and Teachers About Play Aggression in Young Children by James E. Johnson, Susan J. Welteroth, and Susan M. Corl
• Classroom Play
• Play as a Learning Medium Revisited by James Christie
• The Effects of Situational Context on Playful Behaviors of Young Preschool Children by Arleen T. Dodd, Jeanne T. Wilson, and Cosby S. Rogers
• Bilingual Children's Language Usage During Dramatic Play by My-ae Han, Alfredo Benavides, and James Christie
• Factors in Three-to-Five-Year-Old Children's Play by Olivia N. Saracho
• Index