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Theory in Context and Out
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Stuart Reifel
ISBN: 1-56750-487-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-487-3
448 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2001
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
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Description: Theory in Context and Out furthers discourse and understanding about the complex phenomenon we know as play. Play, as a human and animal activity, can be understood in terms of cultural, social, evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. This effort necessarily includes inquiry from a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, psychology, education, biology, anthropology, and leisure studies. This volume presents twenty-two chapters from those disciplines.

This volume includes sections covering Foundations and Theory of Play, Gender and Children's Play, Theory of Mind, Adult-Child Play, and Classroom Play. Scholarly analyses and reports of research from diverse disciplines amplify our understanding of play in Western and non-Western societies.
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
About the Author: STUART REIFEL is Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches in the early childhood education program in the College of Education./e He has studied children's play in schools and homes for the past twenty years, and specializes in the meanings of children's play in their developmental contexts. He served as President for The Association for the Study of Play.
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