Efforts to give preschool children a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics instead rob them of play time both at home and school. Indeed, the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but...
A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parents
Hara Marano, editor-at-large and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, has been watching a disturbing trend: kids are growing up to be wimps. They can’t make their own decisions, cope with anxiety, or handle difficult emotions without going off the deep end. Teens lack leadership skills. College students engage in...
Access to Play for Children in Situations of Crisis: Synthesis of Research in Six Countries
This is a booklet published by the International Play Association (IPA). It includes a glossary of play-related terms and acronyms - 'Publisher' link will download PDF of booklet. Article 31 of the UNCRC (United Nations Committee on the Rights of Children) recognizes the right of the child to rest and...
Affect Regulation and the Origin of Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development
In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional development. Since then he...
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective...
along with photos from play workshops
illustrate the power of play to change professional and personal lives." 12/4/2021 14:07 NIFP-Pavan 9.78193E+12 Marcia L. Nell; Walter F. Drew; Deborah E. Bush 2013 123 "NAEYC" NAEYC
An Integrated Play-based Curriculum for Young Children
An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children, Second Edition explores how to integrate play across the curriculum, helping teachers develop their early childhood curriculum using developmentally and culturally appropriate practice. Distinguished author Olivia N. Saracho offers a theoretical framework for understanding the origins of an early childhood play-based curriculum and...
and is an especially effective approach for children with special educational needs
including those with autism spectrum disorders. This practical handbook offers teachers an array of simple and easy-to-implement theatrical techniques that will enhance students' learning and encourage artistic expression.
Animal Play Behavior
"A scholarly, well-written, and richly illustrated statement of play behavior in numerous animal species, including our own ... Fagen reviews the existing literature for nearly 500 animal species through extensive references (1,895 by my count) that include offerings in a number of specialized disciplines, ranging from natural history to formal...
Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives
Why do animals play? Play has been described in animals as diverse as reptiles, birds and mammals, so what benefits does it provide and how did it evolve? Careful, quantitative studies of social, locomotor and object play behaviour are now beginning to answer these questions and to shed light on...
Authentic relationships in group Care for Infants and Toddlers
Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security in young children. Based on a philosophy of respect and sensitive observation of infants, it is appropriate for use in Sure Start programmes....
Baby Play & Learn
Child development expert Penny Warner offers 160 ideas for games and activities that will provide hours of developmental learning opportunities and fun for babies. Baby Play and Learn includes: A bulleted list of skills that baby is learning through play; Step-by-step instructions for each game and activity; Illustrations demonstrating how...
Balanced and Barefoot How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children's cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults. Today's kids...
Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
Roger Caillois’ Man, Play and Games (1961) stands alongside Brian Sutton-Smith’s The Ambiguity of Play (1997) and Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1938) as a touchstone of play theory. In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those their parents and grandparents knew....
Big Body Play
"Big body play”―the sometimes rowdy, always very physical running, rolling, climbing, tagging, jumping, grabbing, and wrestling that most children love and many adults try to shut down―can and should be an integral part of every early childhood setting. Drawing from evidence-based practice and the latest research, this book explains the...
Canine Play Behavior: The Science of Dogs at Play
Dogs at play how it works! Almost all dogs love to play by themselves, with other dogs, people, objects and toys. But what do we really know about play? Is it possible that what looks like play is something else entirely? German author Mechtild Käufer presents findings from scores of...
Child Development, 7th ed.
A best-selling, topically organized child development text, Berk's Child Development is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural and multi-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to...
Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows
Occasionally an accident of research produces a book more engaging than the one the historian originally intended. While sifting through material for his Ph.D. dissertation, which dealt with an entirely different topic, Eisen came across a diary from the Vilna ghetto written by Zelig Kalmanovitch. His tone was sober, but...
Children at Play: An American History
A chronological history of children's playtime over the last 200 years If you believe the experts, “child’s play”; is serious business. From sociologists to psychologists and from anthropologists to social critics, writers have produced mountains of books about the meaning and importance of play. But what do we know about...
Children’s Play and Playgrounds
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