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Library Books about Play Theory Singer, Jerome L. Child's World of Make-Believe: Experimental Studies of Imaginative Play. 1973. Singer, Jerome L. and Switzer, Ellen. Mind Play: The Creative Uses of Fantasy. 1980. Sutton-Smith, Brian. The Ambiguity of Play. Cambrige, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Sutton-Smith, Brian. Play and Learning. 1980. Sutton-Smith, Brian. Toys as Culture. 1992. Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality. London: Routledge, 1999.
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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 | | |
