02140 a2200397 4500 1138749931 20250317100403.0 250312042019GB 4 eng 9781138749931 Taylor & Francis GBP 36.99 BB 01 eng JNLA thema JMAF thema MQTC thema JNA thema MKMT thema JNLA bic JMAF bic MQTC bic JNA bic MMJT bic EDU010000 bisac EDU023000 bisac PSY004000 bisac PSY026000 bisac PSY036000 bisac 372.21 bisac Marilyn Charles Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives 1 Oxford Routledge 20190621 252 p The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play in terms useful to early childhood educators. The book explicitly links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering accessible information that can help teachers better understand the meanings of children’s expressive acts. Contributors from education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom. They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for teachers and other professionals. The Imprtance of Play in Early Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and developmental psychologists. Jill Bellinson B01 1474 1474