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Library Books about Play Theory Avedon, Elliot M. and Sutton-Smith, Brian. The Study of Games.. 1979. Bloch, Marianne N. and Pellegrini, Anthony D. The Ecological Context of Children's Play. 1989. Duncan, Margaret Carlisle; Chick, Garry; Aycock, Alan; and Reifel, Stuart (eds.). Play & Culture Studies, Volume 1: Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play. 1998. Erikson, Erik H. Toys and Reasons: Stages in the Ritualization of Experience. 1977. Frost, Joe L.; Wortham, Sue C.; and Reifel, Stuart. Play and Child Development. 2000. Galda, Lee and Pellegrini, Anthony D. (eds.) Play, Language, and Stories: The Development of Children's Literate Behavior. 1985. Goldstein, Jeffrey H. Toys, Play, and Child Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Adults who criticise teachers for allowing children to play are unaware that play is the principal means of learning in early childhood. It is the way through which children reconcile their inner lives with external reality. In play, children gradually develop concepts of causal relationships, the power to discriminate, to make judgements, to analyse and synthesise, to imagine and to formulate. Children become absorbed in their play and the satisfaction of bringing it to a satisfactory conclusion fixes habits of concentration which can be transferred to other learning. --BASS Early Years Advisory Team | | |
