Children's Play in Child Care Settings

Hillel Goelman is Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Language Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Goelman is the co-editor of Awakening to Literacy and co-author of The Development of Language and Literacy in the Preschool Years and The Puzzle of Day Care. Ellen Vineberg Jacobs is Professor of Early Childhood Education at Concordia University.

"This book does a nice job of pulling together an emerging body of literature that explores linkages between varying child care experiences and children's development by focusing on children's play interactions. Its real strength is that many contributors incorporate a 'broader view' by taking socio-ecological factors and family background into account when investigating these linkages." — Craig H. Hart, Brigham Young University

• IntroductionEllen Vineberg Jacobs 1. Adult Socialization of Children's Play in Child CareCarollee Howes and Darlene Clemente 2. Peer Play and Nonparental Care ExperiencesMichael E. Lamb, Kathleen J. Sternberg, Nan Knuth, Carl Philip Hwang, and Anders G. Brosberg 3. Family Dynamics and Day Care Children's Peer Group ParticipationJaipaul L. Roopnarine, Josephine A. Bright, and Nancy Beth Riegraf 4. Infant Day Care Facilities Later Social Behavior and School PerformanceTiffany M. Field 5. The Relationship of Child-Care Quality and Play to Social Behavior in the KindergartenEllen Vineberg Jacobs and Donna Romano White 6. Dramatic Play in Day Care: What Happens When Doctors, Cooks, Bakers, Pirates and Pharmacists Invade the Classroom?Nina Howe, Lora Moler, and Bette Chambers 7. Play, Story-song, and Eating Times in Child Care: Caregiver Responses to Toddlers and ThreeDonna S. Wittmer and Alice S. Honig 8. The Play Behaviors of Special Needs Children in Integrated and Non-integrated Child-Care SettingsEliana Tobias 9. Social and Non-Social Play of Infants and Toddlers in Family Day CareMiriam K. Rosenthal 10. Play, Talk, Literacy and the Ecology of Family Day CareHillel Goelman and Alan R. Pence 11. Conclusion: Emerging Ecological Perspectives on Play and Child CareHillel Goelman Index