Play = Learning : How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

PROLOGUE
1. Why Play=Learning: A Call for Change, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Kathryn A. Hirsh-Pasek, and Dorothy G. Singer
CHALLENGES TO PLAY
2. The Cognitive Child vs. the Whole Child: Lessons from 40 Years of Head Start, Edward F. Zigler and Sandra J. Bishop-Josef
3. The Role of Recess in Primary School, Anthony D. Pellegrini and Robyn M. Holmes
SHOOL READINESS - SCHOOL STANDARDS
4. Standards, Science, and the Role of Play in Early Literacy Education, James F. Christie and Kathleen A. Roskos
5. Make-Believe Play: Wellspring for Development of Self-Regulation, Laura E. Berk, Trisha D. Mann, and Amy T. Ogan
6. 'My Magic Story Car': Video-Based Play Intervention to Strengthen Emergent Literary of At-Risk Preschoolers, Harvey F. Bellin and Dorothy G. Singer
7. Narrative Play and Emergent Literacy: Storytelling and Story-acting Meets Journal Writing, Angelika Nicolopoulou, Judith McDowell, and Carolyn Brockmeyer
8. Mathematical Play and Playful Mathematics: A Guide for Early Education, Herbert P. Ginsburg
MEDIA AND COMPUTERS.
9. Media Use by Infants and Toddlers: A Potential for Play, Deborah S. Weber
10. Computer as Paint Brush: Technology, Play, and the Creative Society, Mitchel Resnick
PLAY WITH DYSFUNCTIONAL CHILDREN.
11. Pretend Play and Emotion Learning in Traumatized Mothers and Children, Wendy Haight, James Black, Teresa Jacobsen, and Kathryn Sheridan
12. Play and Autism: Facilitating Symbolic Understanding, Melissa Allen Preissler
EPILOGUE
13. Learning to Play and Learning Through Play, Jerome L. Singer
Index/Contributors

Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child PSY004000