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Taking Play Seriously: Children and Play in Early Childhood Education - an Exciting Challengereviewed by Dorothy G. Singer — October 26, 2009 Title: Taking Play Seriously: Children and Play in Early Childhood Education - an Exciting Challenge Author(s): Ole Fredrik Lillemyr Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Charlotte ISBN: 1607521148, Pages: 220, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com Play and its power to teach and nurture begins at birth. Watch how a baby reacts to a mothers playfulness. There are smiles, cooing, and signs of disappointment and discomfort when the mother stops or ignores the babys positive reactions. This love dance, or connection between mother and child, lays the foundation for trust and for positive affect, the beginnings of socialization.
In Lillemyrs book, Taking Play Seriously, written for parents, educators, and students, the author, himself, takes play too seriously. I wish that he had included more vignettes of how children actually play throughout the book, as he repeatedly defines play in his first two chapters. He discusses the general characteristics of play; the practical applications of play; the significance of play; and the overall holistic understanding of play. This last topic is divided into four dimensions. First play is considered as intrinsically motivated, secondly, play puts reality aside, third,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Dorothy Singer
Yale University E-mail Author DOROTHY G. SINGER is Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University. She is also Co-Director, with Jerome L. Singer, of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center affiliated with the Zigler Center for Child Development and Public Policy. Her research is in the area of early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. Her latest books with Jerome L. Singer are Handbook of Children and the Media; Make-Believe: Games and Activities for Imaginative Play; Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age. Her newest edited books are Children's Play: Roots of Reading; Children, Culture and Violence; Play = Learning, and A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006 and in 2009, the Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
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