The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education

The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781351718301
ISBN-13 : 1351718304
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Book Synopsis The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education by : Marilyn Charles

Download or read book The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education written by Marilyn Charles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play in terms useful to early childhood educators. The book explicitly links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering accessible information that can help teachers better understand the meanings of children’s expressive acts. Contributors from education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom. They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for teachers and other professionals. The Imprtance of Play in Early Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and developmental psychologists.


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