Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum Second Edition - Softcover

Wood, Elizabeth Ann; Attfield, Jane

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9780761941743: Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum Second Edition

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ISBN 10: 0761941746 ISBN 13: 9780761941743

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005

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This timely second edition explores recent developments which strongly endorse play as an integral part of the curriculum.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Wood is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield. She teaches on a range of post-graduate programmes and runs in-service courses for teachers and early years practitioners. She has worked on a number of collaborative research projects with teachers in early years and primary schools. Elizabeth co-directed two ESRC funded research projects with Neville Bennett: Reception Teachers′ Theories of Play (1995-97) and Progression and Continuity in the Early Years (1999-2000). She has authored books and articles based on her research interests in play, young children′s learning, early childhood pedagogy, equity and equality, policy critique and collaborative action research.

Review:

′In this new and updated edition of an outstanding book, Wood and Attfield once again demonstrate how young children make meaning, and construct knowledge, through play. They combine an informed discussion of the ′ideological tradition′ of the early childhood pioneers, which continues to underpin most contemporary provision, with a refreshing openness to the new insights provided by recent research, and the new opportunities offered by the Foundation Stage era. Their unrivalled explanation of the links between theorists, such as Vygotsky, and classroom provision for play, is now expanded through considerations of recent findings in neuroscience, and a renewed awareness of the sociocultural contexts of childhood, as well as by studies which acknowledge the importance of boisterous, rough-and-tumble, play activities for children′s development. And throughout, they remind readers and practitioners of the important distinction between play as a spontaneous activity of children (′play as such′), and the play which educators offer as a medium for learning′ - Elizabeth Brooker, Course Leader: MA in Childhood Studies, Institute of Education

`Clearly written, good theoretical base′

`Excellent coverage theory, very relevant for students and CPD work with teachers′

`Good to have a book on play which reflects theoretical underpinning rather than solely practical views.

`This is a very accessible text for year 2 students′

`Students find this book accessible and valuable for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels′ - Lecturers′ comments

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