Transactions at Play
Volume 9
Published on 16. May 2009
200 pages
978-0-7618-8485-9 (ISBN)
Description
When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play contexts is evident across the nine chapters, encompassing varied continents, age groups, and sorts of players. The play processes of giant pandas, of home-visiting therapists, of Polynesian women, and of autistic kids are included here. The healthy interchange of ideas about play, one of the hallmarks of the Association for the Study of Play, is a process that is cultivated in this new volume.
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Cindy Dell Clark studies and teaches on children's health, play, and cultural participation. She is also an author whose most recent book is In Sickness and In Play: Children Coping with Chronic Illness.
Content
Part 1 Part I: PLAY AND CULTURE Commentary: Play and Culture
Part 2 The Cultural Roles of Emotions in Pretend Play
Part 3 Nine a Slide Basketball in the Kingdom of Tonga: A Case Study in Negotiating Gender Roles
Part 4 Is Hazing Play?
Part 5 Part II: TRANSACTING PLAY Commentary: The Richness of Play Research
Part 6 Keeping It Real: An Examination of the Metacommunication Processes Used within the Play of One Group of Adolescent Girls
Part 7 Autistic Children's Play with Objects, Peers and Adults in a Classroom Setting
Part 8 Effects of Partner Play Fighting Behavior in Giant Panda Cubs
Part 9 Part III: ADULTS IN CHILDREN'S PLAY Commentary: Inquiries into the Roles of Adults in Children's Play
Part 10 "It's Only Play if You Get to Choose": Children's Perspectives of Play, and Adult Interventions
Part 11 The State of Recess in Pennsylvania Elementary Schools: A Continuing Tradition or a Distant Memory
Part 12 The Toy Bag: An Examination of Its History and Use in Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs
Part 13 About the Contributors
Part 2 The Cultural Roles of Emotions in Pretend Play
Part 3 Nine a Slide Basketball in the Kingdom of Tonga: A Case Study in Negotiating Gender Roles
Part 4 Is Hazing Play?
Part 5 Part II: TRANSACTING PLAY Commentary: The Richness of Play Research
Part 6 Keeping It Real: An Examination of the Metacommunication Processes Used within the Play of One Group of Adolescent Girls
Part 7 Autistic Children's Play with Objects, Peers and Adults in a Classroom Setting
Part 8 Effects of Partner Play Fighting Behavior in Giant Panda Cubs
Part 9 Part III: ADULTS IN CHILDREN'S PLAY Commentary: Inquiries into the Roles of Adults in Children's Play
Part 10 "It's Only Play if You Get to Choose": Children's Perspectives of Play, and Adult Interventions
Part 11 The State of Recess in Pennsylvania Elementary Schools: A Continuing Tradition or a Distant Memory
Part 12 The Toy Bag: An Examination of Its History and Use in Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs
Part 13 About the Contributors
