Excellence of Play

AvJanet Moyles

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Play as a powerful learning and teaching experience remainskey 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 emerging research on young children's development.

The emphasis remains firmly on demonstrating the excellenceof 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.It 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 andissues 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 raised

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.

"Janet Moyles's 'The Excellence of Play' has become a corner-stone of Early Childhood Education and Care. Please, please someone, make this book compulsory reading for MPs and policy wonks."
Tricia David, Emeritus Professor, Canterbury Christ Church University

"'The Excellence of Play' is now in its 4th edition and this is testimony to how thought-provoking an edited collection it continues to be. This much anticipated new edition does not disappoint:in summary, this book is a valuable contribution to the field of Early Childhood Studies and should be considered essential reading for students and practitioners alike."
Dr. Deborah Albon, London Metropolitan University

"This new edition of a classic text offers encouragement as well as information to all working with young children and their families. It provides grounded evidence for the importance of play, spelling out the complex but crucial contribution it makes to self-regulation, motivation and well-being, which are under threat in current conditions. Readers will be equipped to affirm and disseminate the importance of ensuring that future generations benefit from meaningful play."

Wendy Scott, President TACTYC

"The book's contributors do justice to the delights, complexities, puzzles and imponderables of play and make a powerful case against the undue "schoolification" of childhood and for the "playification" of schooling."
Colin Richards HMI(retired) Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cumbria

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-16
Mått:167 x 238 x 16 mm
Vikt:584 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Upplaga:4
Förlag:McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN:9780335264186

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Mer om författaren

Janet Moyles is Emeritus Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University and an early years/primary specialist and consultant, particularly in the areas of play, learning and practitioner research. Her books include Just Playing?, The Excellence of Play, Interactive Teaching in the Primary School; Images of Violence and Effective Leadership and Management in the Early Years.

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: Play is fundamental1. Play and the legislated curriculum by Angela Anning 2. Starting with play: taking play seriously by Janet Moyles 3. Brain development and play by Celia O'Donovan and Val Melnyczuk 4. Play with children from diverse cultures by Karen Barr and Penny Borkett 5. Reconfiguring play: material feminist possibilities to reimagine gender in early childhood by Jayne Osgood PART 2: Play is learning6. Babies as musicians, artists and scientists by Peter Elfer 7. Hunting and gathering: two distinct forms of learning from play by Rod Parker-Rees 8. Play beyond the Foundation Stage: play, self-regulation and narrative skills by David Whitebread, Helen Jameson and Marisol Basilio 9. Friendship, culture and playful learning in early childhood education by Pat Broadhead and Liz Chesworth 10. Young Children as Researchers in Play by Jane Murray Part 3: Playful pedagogies 11. Re-establishing early years practitioners as play professionals by Justine Howard and Pete King 12. Permission to Play by Kathy Goouch 13. Developing play pedagogy through critically reflective practice Sue Rogers and Chris Brown 14. Work or play: How children learn to read the signals about activity type in today's early years provision by Jan Georgeson and Jane Payler 15. Personalising Transitions: How play can help 'newly-arrived children' settle into school by Hilary Fabian and Aline-Wendy DunlopPart 4: Playful curricula 16. Creative representation: Young children developing flexibility of thinking as they engage playfully with media and materials by Kathy Ring 17. In tune with play by Linda Pound 18. Adventurous Play Outdoors by Helen Tovey 19. Playful explorations and new technologies by Nicola Yelland 20. Mathematics and the ecology of pretend play by Maulfry Worthington 21. Play, Literacy and Language Learning by Helen Bradford 22. Children's fantasy role play – why adults should join in by Neil Kitson Part 5: Play is universal 23. Play and the achievement of potential by Karen Barr and Lynne Truelove 24. International dimensions of play and transitions by Sally Peters Endpiece: by Tina Bruce