Teaching Through Play: Teachers' Thinking and Classroom Practice - Softcover

Bennett, Neville

9780335197323: Teaching Through Play: Teachers' Thinking and Classroom Practice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335197329 ISBN 13: 9780335197323

Publisher: Open University Press, 1997

Teaching Through Play This book focuses on nine reception class teachers, ranging from novices to experts, in order to discover their theories of play and how these relate to classroom practice. There is a need to improve the quality of teaching and learning through play. Teaching Through Play makes a valuable contribution to this process. Full description

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Review:

"...full of downright good advice for every academic who wants to do something practical to improve his or her students' learning ... there are very few writers on the subject of university teachingwho can engage a reader so personally, express things so clearly, relate research findings so eloquently to personal experience" -Paul Ramsden

About the Author:

Neville Bennett is Professor of Primary Education at the University of Exeter. He has a particular interest in the Early Years and has researched and published widely in this field. He is co-director with Liz Wood on the ESRC Funded Project Reception Teachers' Theories of Play. Liz Wood is Programme Leader for Early Years at the School of Education, University of Exeter. She has written several books focusing on aspects of early years' education. Sue Rogers is an experienced early years teacher. She is now working as Lecturer in Education at the University of Reading.

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