Play and Educational Theory and Practice

by Lytle, Donald E.

• ISBN13: 9781567506846
• ISBN10: 1567506844
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

Combining the research talents of many long-standing members of the Association for the Study of Play, this work provides discussions of the theory and applied value of play, as well as ongoing research from America, Australia, Taiwan, and Korea. The developmental and educational theories of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky are analyzed in several chapters. The world's premiere play scholar, Brian Sutton-Smith, continues his seminal play theory work, following up on previously presented findings and constructing a developmental theory of play based on emotions. Chapters address: BL Play as a parody of emotional vulnerability BL Learning to observe children at play BL Symbolic play through the eyes and words of children BL The activities of children at recess in middle school Professors, teachers, scholars, and university students interested in early childhood education, child development, play theory and practice, and preschool and elementary education will find this volume of interest.

Author Biography

DONALD E. LYTLE is a professor in the Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science at California State University, Chico. He is the Philosophy Chair of the National Association of Sport and Physical Education Council.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Note	ix
Introduction	xi
Donald E. Lytle
I. Play Theory and Research	1	(56)
Play as a Parody of Emotional Vulnerability	3	(16)
Brian Sutton-Smith
Simmel: On Sociability as the Play-Form of Human Association	19	(14)
Thomas S. Henricks
An Introduction to Research in Psychology: Learning to Observe Children at Play	33	(10)
Dana L. Gross
Where Is Play?	43	(14)
Patrick Biesty
II. Vygotskian Theory and Scaffolding	57	(78)
Putting Vygotsky to the Test	59	(40)
E. Beverley Lambert
Margaret Clyde
Play, Activity, and Thought: Reflections on Piaget's and Vygotsky's Theories	99	(18)
Rosario Ortega
The Effect of Verbal Scaffolding on the Complexity of Preschool Children's Block Constructions	117	(18)
Kara M. Gregory
An Sook Kim
Alice Whiren
III. Children's Playfulness and Learning	135	(60)
Levels of Analysis in Pretend Play Discourse: Metacommunication in Conversational Routines	137	(22)
R. Keith Sawyer
Symbolic Play through the Eyes and Words of Children	159	(24)
Janet K. Sawyers
Nathalie Carrick
Rural Children's Play in the Natural Environment	183	(12)
Betty A. Beach
IV. Children's Play, Humor, and Education	195	(60)
Play on Words: Humor as the Means of Developing Authentic Learning	197	(16)
Phil Fitzsimmons
Barbra McKenzie
``When I Play Funny It Makes Me Laugh'': Implications for Early Childhood Educators in Developing Humor through Play	213	(14)
Grace Masselos
Recess in a Middle School: What Do the Students Do?	227	(16)
Olga S. Jarrett
Michelle Duckett-Hedgebeth
Questioning Play and Work, Early Childhood, and Pedagogy	243	(12)
Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
V. Asian Play Dynamics	255	(68)
Play, Racial Attitudes, and Self-Concept in Taiwan	257	(20)
Li-Chun Chang
Stuart Reifel
Contextual Understanding of Children's Play in Taiwanese Kindergartens	277	(22)
Pei-Yu Chang
Contextual Differences in Korean Mother--Child Interactions: A Study of Scaffolding Behaviors	299	(24)
Seunghwa Jwa
Joe L. Frost
Index	323	(6)
About the Contributors	329