Overview
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 8)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Vygotskij
- Vygotsky
- children's play in cultural and institutional settings
- cultural historical activity theory
- dynamical, dialectical and material developmental psychology
- interplay between theoretical and empirical studies
- persistence of play
- play in online communities
- play research
- play-environments for children in early childhood care
- social identity
- spheres of reality
- zone of proximal development
About this book
This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.  Â
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children's Play and Development
Book Subtitle: Cultural-Historical Perspectives
Editors: Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6579-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6578-8Published: 03 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9769-7Published: 15 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6579-5Published: 20 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 265
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology