Inclusive Play: Practical Strategies for Children from Birth to Eight - Hardcover

Casey, Theresa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849201234 ISBN 13: 9781849201230

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

This practical, child-focused book gives you the tools you need to make sure all the children in your care are included and involved in the play opportunities of your setting.

About this title

About the Author:

Theresa Casey began her career as a playworker and has wide experience of working in both indoor and outdoor play environments, with teachers, support staff and play teams. She is now a freelance consultant.

Review:

′This is an essential book for all early years practitioners looking for practical strategies to enhance and challenge their current play practices and thinking. It is a practical and child-focused book underpinned by sound theory and it provides activities and ideas for those small changes which can have such a big impact on inclusive play for children from birth to eight, throughout a setting. This second edition builds on the successful first edition and the new content includes consideration of early years curricula across the whole of the UK; a new chapter on risk and challenge in play; new case studies; international perspectives; full coverage of the birth to eight age range; and consideration of inclusive play from a children′s rights perspective′ -
Special

′Attractively set out and well illustrated, [with] a very useful resource section. Casey has a clear and accessible writing style and is plainly dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of play. This book will help practitioners to audit their setting in terms of the opportunities it provides for play in different contexts, and its focus is clearly on appreciating children as individuals...In particular, the concept of "quick actions for change" could be applied successfully in many contexts [reminding] us that effective practice is reflective and highlights the importance of close observation to engage in active analysis of your setting. Perhaps every establishment should adopt this approach′ -
SEN Magazine www.senmagazine.co.uk

′Written from the author′s deep commitment to young children′s play, this second edition is straightforward and enthusiastically written and packed with good advice and activities to both enhance and challenge current play practices and adults′ thinking. It′s a great combination of initial theoretical justification followed by many good examples of play situations to which practitioners can relate′ -
Professor Emeritus Janet Moyles, Early Years & Play Consultant

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849201234
• ISBN 13: 9781849201230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136