商品簡介
Sluss (teacher education and professional services, College of William & Mary) and Jarrett (early childhood education, Georgia State U.) present 18 chapters of research on play and culture from contributors from around the world working in different disciplines, such as psychology, education, anthropology, biology, history, and sociology. The volume, seventh in a series, is sponsored by the Association for the Study of Play, a professional group of researchers who study the topic and its importance in the study of culture and human development and welfare. The volume examines the intersection of play and culture, and scholarship, theory, and studies on subjects such as children's views, teachers' beliefs, cultural differences, and playground safety. Other chapters address adult playfulness and creativity, how play helps prepare children for reading, honesty and fairness, and ritual role-play. It contains many papers that were presented at the annual conference of the association. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dorothy Justus Sluss is the Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Professional Services in the School of Education at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her research interests include constructivism, early childhood education, teacher education, and play. She has been published in Young Children; Childhood Education; the Journal of Research in Childhood Education; and has recently published Supporting Play: Birth to Age Eight.
Olga Jarrett is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Georgia State University in Atlanta where she teaches child development, science teaching methods, and action research for an urban alternative certification masters program. Her research interests are: role of play in science, role of teachers in the play of children, recess, and bullying. Her research has been published in such journals as: Developmental Psychology; School Science and Mathematics; Journal of Elementary Science Education, Journal of Geoscience Education, and Journal of Educational Research. She is the past president of The Association for the Study of Play and secretary of the American Association for the Child's Right to Play (IPAUSA).
