The excellence of play (repost)

Play as a successful learning and teaching experience remains key to early education. The new edition of this popular book continues to clearly illustrate key play theories in practice. It has been comprehensively revised to include the latest research and practice in the field.

Key features include: Contributions from leading experts in the field who are passionate about the excellence of play Helpful features in every chapter including practical examples, boxed chapter summaries, cameos and end of chapter questions

Contents
Figures and photographs
Notes on the editor and contributors
Foreword
Introduction
PART 1 Setting the play context
1 Play and legislated curriculum
2 Work or play: how children learn to read the signals about activity type in today’s early years provision
3 Permission to play
4 Hunting and gathering: how play helps us to let in, as well as to get in, information about our environment
PART 2 Play, language and literacy
5 Playing or having fun? Dilemmas in early literacy
6 Play beyond the Foundation Stage: storytelling, creative writing and self-regulation in able 6–7 year olds
7 Children’s fantasy role play – why adults should join in
PART 3 Play and curriculum
8 Art in the early years
9 Playing music
10 Science and play
11 Mathematics and play
12 Forest School: playing on the wild side
PART 4 Play, pedagogy and culture in early education
13 The developmental and therapeutic potential of play: re-establishing teachers as play professionals
14 Building friendship through playful learning in the early years
15 Personalising transitions: how play can help ‘newly arrived children’ settle into school
16 Play in the early years: the influence of cultural difference
17 Play and the achievement of potential
18 Play, the universe and everything!
Afterword
Author index
Subject index