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2004 Playing for Keeps International Conference
Conference Topics

Playing for Keeps conferences are organized to cover several functional topics about play, including:

• The state of the knowledge base
• Practice innovations using play in curricula and human services
• Advocacy for increasing children's access to play
• New developments in the manufacture, marketing and use of play products

Attendees at Playing to Learn, Learning to Play: Why Play Matters for Today's Kids will hear perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners about these specific topics…and more!

• The latest research about play
• How the children's toy and entertainment market is changing
• The role of television and technology in play
• How to communicate the benefits of play to parents and administrators
• Making play accessible
• What we can do about the "push-down" of early childhood curriculum
• What’s happening to recess
• Play in children's museums, after-school programs and hospitals

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