Children at Play

  • Children at Play: A Cul de Sac Collection
    Children at Play: A Cul de Sac Collection
    By Richard Thompson

    Richard Thompson reminds us that being a 40-year-old isn't hard, but being a four-year-old is.

  • Children at Play: An American History
    Children at Play: An American History
    By Howard P. Chudacoff

    A chronological history of children's playtime over the last 200 yearsIf you believe the experts, “child’s play”; is serious business. From sociologists to psychologists and from anthropologists to social critics,...

  • Children at Play: Using Waldorf Principles to Foster Childhood Development
    Children at Play: Using Waldorf Principles to Foster Childhood Development
    By Heidi Britz-Crecelius

    Imaginative play is more vital for a child's future than many parents and educators realize. The more they are allowed to be absorbed in their play, the more fully and...

  • Children at Play: Learning Gender in the Early Years
    Children at Play: Learning Gender in the Early Years
    By Barbara Martin

    This captivating book illuminates how 3 and 4 year-old newcomers in early years classes learn rules for gendered behaviour from older children and develop their gender identities.

  • Children at Play: Clinical and Developmental Approaches to Meaning and Representation
    Children at Play: Clinical and Developmental Approaches to Meaning and Representation
    By Arietta Slade Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the City College and Graduate Center City University of New York, Dennie Palmer Wolf Senior Research Associate Harvard Graduate School of Education

    and well past the stage of playing in psychotherapy), she began playing a game of doctor with me. In this case, one of us was alternately designated as the doctor and the other as the patient who was ill and in need of a checkup and ...