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catalog contributor b12482396.
catalog created "2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-188) and index.".
catalog description "Section Four: Dynamic issues -- 13. Present and future issues: the power of play -- Cultural contexts -- Teachers appreciate diversity -- Work-play issues -- The influence of Western European traditions on early childhood education -- 14. Controversial subject matter -- Play as an assessment tool -- Play and controversial subject matter: some final thoughts -- 15. Nonlinear dynamic theory and practice in a linear context -- Advocating for children's play: some questions and answers for parents and other policy makers -- Ways to communicate children's progess to parents -- What is the role of play in early education for the future? -- Play themes.".
catalog description "Section One: Vision informs dynamic theory -- 1. What is worthwhile learning? -- Toward a dynamic theory of play and meaning -- Linear academic teaching -- Nonlinear intellectual teaching -- Ethical teaching -- Meaning 2. A definition of play: conditions for integrated learning -- What is play? -- The continuum of psychological-individual and sociocultural perspectives on play -- The many dimensions of play -- 3. A vision of play in early childhood education -- Imagine classrooms -- What are some characteristics of play that span development? -- The disciplined freedom of play -- 4. What research says about play and meaning in early childhood: play as integrated learning -- Play influences development -- The influences of play -- Brain research and meaning -- Influence of enrichment and connections -- Influence of feedback and stress -- Influence of early experiences -- Influence of personal meaning.".
catalog description "Section Two: Nonlinear theories that function like play: theory informs practice -- 6. Sociodramatic play and script theory: sociodramatic play as representation -- Script theory and narrative structures -- Diverse cultural context and content -- Play grammar -- 7. Chaos and complexity theory -- Sensitive dependence on initial conditions -- Self-organization of systems -- Fractals -- Complexity theory and phase transitions: some final thoughts -- 8. Theory of mind -- Toward a dynamic theory of play and meaning -- Section Three: Integrating dynamic practice -- 9. Beginning with nonlinear environmental design -- 10. Classroom organization -- How might teachers influence children's development -- 11. Building play into curriculum strands: play is a condition for learning -- Quantitative knowing -- Physical knowing -- Social knowing -- Representational knowing -- Planning for varied representational forms -- Play with many forms of knowing -- 12. Dynamic themes: weaving the strands -- Teachers and children construct dynamic themes -- Teachers match dynamic themes, experiences and children -- How nonlinear theory works (and plays out) in nonlinear practice -- Integrating meaning with dynamic themes and play.".
catalog extent "xii, 196 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Play and meaning in early childhood education.".
catalog identifier "0205296505 (alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Play and meaning in early childhood education.".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Boston : Allyn and Bacon,".
catalog relation "Play and meaning in early childhood education.".
catalog subject "372.21 21".
catalog subject "Early childhood education.".
catalog subject "LB1139.35.P55 F76 2002".
catalog subject "Play.".
catalog tableOfContents "Section Four: Dynamic issues -- 13. Present and future issues: the power of play -- Cultural contexts -- Teachers appreciate diversity -- Work-play issues -- The influence of Western European traditions on early childhood education -- 14. Controversial subject matter -- Play as an assessment tool -- Play and controversial subject matter: some final thoughts -- 15. Nonlinear dynamic theory and practice in a linear context -- Advocating for children's play: some questions and answers for parents and other policy makers -- Ways to communicate children's progess to parents -- What is the role of play in early education for the future? -- Play themes.".
catalog tableOfContents "Section One: Vision informs dynamic theory -- 1. What is worthwhile learning? -- Toward a dynamic theory of play and meaning -- Linear academic teaching -- Nonlinear intellectual teaching -- Ethical teaching -- Meaning 2. A definition of play: conditions for integrated learning -- What is play? -- The continuum of psychological-individual and sociocultural perspectives on play -- The many dimensions of play -- 3. A vision of play in early childhood education -- Imagine classrooms -- What are some characteristics of play that span development? -- The disciplined freedom of play -- 4. What research says about play and meaning in early childhood: play as integrated learning -- Play influences development -- The influences of play -- Brain research and meaning -- Influence of enrichment and connections -- Influence of feedback and stress -- Influence of early experiences -- Influence of personal meaning.".
catalog tableOfContents "Section Two: Nonlinear theories that function like play: theory informs practice -- 6. Sociodramatic play and script theory: sociodramatic play as representation -- Script theory and narrative structures -- Diverse cultural context and content -- Play grammar -- 7. Chaos and complexity theory -- Sensitive dependence on initial conditions -- Self-organization of systems -- Fractals -- Complexity theory and phase transitions: some final thoughts -- 8. Theory of mind -- Toward a dynamic theory of play and meaning -- Section Three: Integrating dynamic practice -- 9. Beginning with nonlinear environmental design -- 10. Classroom organization -- How might teachers influence children's development -- 11. Building play into curriculum strands: play is a condition for learning -- Quantitative knowing -- Physical knowing -- Social knowing -- Representational knowing -- Planning for varied representational forms -- Play with many forms of knowing -- 12. Dynamic themes: weaving the strands -- Teachers and children construct dynamic themes -- Teachers match dynamic themes, experiences and children -- How nonlinear theory works (and plays out) in nonlinear practice -- Integrating meaning with dynamic themes and play.".
catalog title "Play and meaning in early childhood education / Doris Pronin Fromberg.".
catalog type "text".