The Praeger handbook of play across the life cycle : fun from infancy to old age /
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger/ABC-CLIO,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Come, let's play
- Play across history and into cyberspace
- What the experts say about play
- What cultures have to do with play
- What parents and adults have to do with play and gender
- Chronological age is not the same as development in play
- Infancy
- Nursery, preschool, and kindergarten
- Elementary school - Middle school and puberty
- High school and adolescence
- College and early adulthood
- Adulthood, middle age and old age
- Physical, emotional, intellectual, and relational benefits
- In their best interest: play therapy for children
- Play as rehabilitation
- The technology of play time and of media time
- What teachers and coaches think about play
- A hierarchical theory of play competence.