Children's Play and Development

1. Introduction: Children’s Play and Development
Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist

2. The Structure of Fantasy Play and Its Implications for Good and Evil Games
Ivy Schousboe

3. Playing with Social Identities: Play in the Everyday Life of a Peer Group in Day Care
Ditte Winther-Lindqvist

4. Pedagogical Perspectives on Play
Daniela Cecchin

5. Collective Imagining in Play
Marilyn Fleer

6. Play Performance and Affect in a Mexican Telenovela
Gloria Quiñones

7. Children’s Collective Imagination in Play: A Preschooler’s Bilingual Heritage Language Development
Liang Li

8. Language Play: The Development of Linguistic Consciousness and Creative Speech in Early Childhood Education
Niklas Pramling, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson

9. Play to Learn, Learn to Play: Boundary Crossing Within Zones of Proximal Development
Lars Hennig Rossen

10. Online Adolescence: Real-Life Development in the Virtual World of Warcraft
Halfdan Fryd Koot, Henrik Garde

11. Playing in Online Chat Communities
Morten Jack

12. The Persistence of Play and What If Thinking
Ivy Schousboe

13. Cultural and Historical Influences on Conceptions and Uses of Play
Ivy Schousboe

14. An Activity Theory View on the Development of Playing
Bert Oers

15. Play, But Not Simply Play: The Anthropology of Play
Benny Karpatschof

Keywords: Education, Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology