Responding to current debates on the place of play in schools, the authors have extensively revised their groundbreaking book. They explain how and why play is a critical part of children’s development, as well as the central role adults have to promote it. This classic textbook and popular practitioner resource offers systematic descriptions and analyses of the different roles a teacher adopts to support play, including those of stage manager, mediator, player, scribe, assessor, communicator, and planner. This new edition has been expanded to include significant developments in the broadening landscape of early learning and care, such as assessment, diversity and culture, intentional teaching, inquiry, and the construction of knowledge.
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“This book offers magnificent descriptions and evidence-based examples of how teachers can create a climate for
learning via play
.”
—From the Foreword to the Second Edition by
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
, Temple University,
and
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
, University of Delaware
“This book describes the knowledge that is required to foster play and to use it as a solid foundation on which to build learning.”
—From the Foreword to the First Edition by
Elizabeth Prescott,
faculty emerita, Pacific Oaks College
Elizabeth Jones is faculty emerita in human development at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California. Gretchen Reynolds is on the faculty in the early childhood education program at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada. Their other books on play include Master Players (Reynolds & Jones) and Playing to Get Smart (Jones & Cooper).
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