Introduction, historical antecedents of early childhood education play / Olivia Saracho and Bernard Spodek -- Understanding play and its theories / Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek -- Spontaneous play in the 21st century / Fergus P. Hughes -- Theories of pretense, mental representation, and humor development / Doris Bergen -- Play in school, the teacher role--reforms and recent research / Ole Fredrik Lillemyr -- Young children's play and cognitive style / Olivia N. Saracho -- On the relation between play and symbolic thought : the case of mathematics manipulatives / David H. Uttal -- Play and early development and education : the instantiation of parental belief systems / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine ... [et al.] -- Play in children : an attachment perspective / Gary Creasey and Patricia Jarvis -- The teening of preschool play / Francine Smolucha -- Early childhood educational play / Bernard Spodek and Olivia N. Saracho.
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Contemporary perspectives in early childhood education
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