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The Excellence of Play

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0335264182
ISBN-13 9780335264186
Publisher Open University Press
Imprint Open University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 16th, 2015
Print length 344 Pages
Weight 594 grams
Dimensions 24.10 x 17.10 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification: Pre-school & kindergarten
Ksh 6,200.00
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This is a must-read book for all students studying early childhood at a range of levels and practitioners who are looking to deepen their understanding of play and playful practices.
Play as a powerful learning and teaching experience remainskey to effective early childhood education. Retaining its popular approach and style, this new edition reflects the contemporary context of early childhood education and care as well emerging research on young children''s development.

The emphasis remains firmly on demonstrating the excellenceof play and its contribution to children''s overall learning and development in the early years, and the role of adults in promoting inspirational playful pedagogies.It offers new coverage on topics such as brain development, gender, babies’ play, cultural diversity and inclusion, children as researchers, new technologies, outdoor play and international dimensions.

Key features include:

  • A chapter overview giving a brief outline of aims and purpose
  • Lively and meaningful cameos to help bring the themes andissues to life
  • Content drawing on the cameos to help link research, theory and practice
  • Reflective questions to raise awareness of, and reflection on, the issues raised
  • Useful websites and further reading

    This is a must-read book for all students studying early childhood at a range of levels and practitioners who are looking to deepen their understanding of play and playful practices.

    "Janet Moyles''s ''The Excellence of Play'' has become a corner-stone of Early Childhood Education and Care. Please, please someone, make this book compulsory reading for MPs and policy wonks."
    Tricia David, Emeritus Professor, Canterbury Christ Church University

    "''The Excellence of Play'' is now in its 4th edition and this is testimony to how thought-provoking an edited collection it continues to be. This much anticipated new edition does not disappoint:in summary, this book is a valuable contribution to the field of Early Childhood Studies and should be considered essential reading for students and practitioners alike."
    Dr. Deborah Albon, London Metropolitan University

    "This new edition of a classic text offers encouragement as well as information to all working with young children and their families. It provides grounded evidence for the importance of play, spelling out the complex but crucial contribution it makes to self-regulation, motivation and well-being, which are under threat in current conditions. Readers will be equipped to affirm and disseminate the importance of ensuring that future generations benefit from meaningful play."

    Wendy Scott, President TACTYC

    "The book''s contributors do justice to the delights, complexities, puzzles and imponderables of play and make a powerful case against the undue "schoolification" of childhood and for the "playification" of schooling."
    Colin Richards HMI(retired) Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cumbria


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