Play from Birth to Twelve by Doris Pronin Fromberg

Play from Birth to Twelve by Doris Pronin Fromberg

This third edition of Play From Birth to Twelve offers comprehensive coverage of what we now know about play and its guiding principles, dynamics, and importance in early learning.

"It is a delight to welcome this third edition of Play from Birth to Twelve, so brilliantly edited by Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris BergenSuch a comprehensive and genuinely helpful resource will prove of theoretical and practical value to all those who deal with children and who want to understand the roles of play in our early lives. Educators, health professionals, students, parents, museum personnel, city designers, and many others will find valuable material in these pages. The scope of the volume and its range of outstanding new and older research is a tribute to the insightful work of its editors. If the content of these essays directed more of our social and educational policy, we would surely have a better world."

Kieran Egan, Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada

"Broad and deep with appeal to a wide range of practitioners, theorists, researchers, policy makers, and parents, this brilliant book is needed today more than ever before. The editors have provided a rich treasure trove of everything we ever wanted to know about play from theory to practice, and the distinguished chapter authors are recognized experts on play, child development, and education. Teachers struggling with the disappearance of play from current educational settings will find this third edition, up to date with surprising new content and perspectives on the future, to be a comprehensive resource."

Kathryn Castle, Professor & Watson Endowed Chair in Education, Oklahoma State University, USA

Doris Pronin Fromberg is Professor Emerita at Hofstra University, USA.

Doris Bergen is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Miami University of Ohio, USA.

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ISBN 13	9781138804135
ISBN 10	1138804134
Title	Play from Birth to Twelve
Author	Doris Pronin Fromberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2015-03-24
Number of pages	480
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