The Excellence of Play - Softcover

Moyles, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335190685 ISBN 13: 9780335190683

Publisher: Open University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Anyone who has observed play for any length of time wil recognize that, for young children, play is a tool for learning. Professionals who understand, acknowledge, and appreciate this can, through provision, interaction and intervention in children's play, ensure progression, differentiation and relevance in the curriculum.

"The Excellence of Play" gathers together authoritative contributors to provide a wide-ranging and key source text reflecting both up-to-date research and current classroom practice. It tackles how we conceptualize play, how we 'place' it in the classroom, how we relate it to the curriculum, and how we evaluate its role in learning in the early years. It should stimulate and inform debate through its argument that 'a curriculum which sanctions and utilizes play is more likely to provide well-balanced citizens of the future as well as happier children in the present'.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Moyles is Emeritus Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University and an early years/primary specialist and consultant, particularly in the areas of play, learning and practitioner research. Her books include Just Playing?, The Excellence of Play, Interactive Teaching in the Primary School; Images of Violence and Effective Leadership and Management in the Early Years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335190685
• ISBN 13: 9780335190683
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240