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x, 260 pages : 24 cm Cover title: Children play & development Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and indexes 1. Historical and theoretical viewpoints. A definition of play -- The history of play in the western world -- Theories of play. 2. Ethological and cultural perspectives. Characteristics of animal play -- Cultural differences in play -- Cultural differences in symbolic play. 3. The first two years of life. Exploration and play -- Types of infant play -- Social aspects of infant and toddler play. 4. The pre-school years: from two to five. The two-, three-, four-, and five-year old -- General patterns of play -- Factors that influence preschool play. 5. Play in later childhood and adolescence. General characteristics of the school-age child -- General characteristics of the adolescent -- Play in middle childhood -- Adolescent play. 6. Gender differences in play. The concept of gender -- Toy selection -- Fantasy play -- Rough-and-tumple play -- Games-with-rules 7. Play in special populations. Children with physical disabilities -- Children with intellectual impairments -- The children with emotional problems -- The child under stress. 8. Play and intellectual de

Author

Fergus Peter Hughes

Publisher

Boston: Allyn and Bacon

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780205152605

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences