Play and Curriculum

Myae Han is a professor of early childhood education in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware.James E. Johnson is professor of early childhood education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at The Pennsylvania State University.

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the relations between the play and curriculum from early education to higher education. The volume has 3 sections with the 9 chapters grouped to represent various voices on play and curriculum: in Culture, in STEM, in Higher Education. The uniqueness of this book is represented by its breadths and depths of diversity from investigating play and curriculum in an indigenous group in Columbia to play in a New York City Public school and from play and curriculum in a Family Child Care context to the uses of play with college students.

List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection I. Play, Curriculum and CultureChapter 1: Incorporating Play into the Preschool Curriculum in a Kogi Community in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta by S. Lynneth Solis¿Chapter 2: A Case Study of a New York City Elementary School's Adoption of the Playworld Activity by Beth FerholtChapter 3: Home-Based Child Care Providers' Perspectives about Play, Curriculum, and Quality Improvement Initiatives by Alison Hooper, Juana Gaviria-Loaiza, Cailin KerchSection II. Play and Curriculum In StemChapter 4: Facilitating Mathematical Thinking in Preschool Play: Findings of The CECE Math-Play Studies by Sudha Swaminathan, Jeffrey Trawick-SmithChapter 5: Exploring the Role of Free Play in Elementary Science by Brian A. Stone, Lora Lorentsen, Meghan SchmidtChapter 6: Thinking Outside the Woods: Teacher's story of Urban Nature and Inviting the Wild into the City Classroom by Heather Pinedo-BurnsSection III. Play, Teachers and Higher EducationChapter 7: Play in Higher Education: Emergent Understandings of Play Pedagogy for Adult Learners in Early Childhood Teacher Education Programs by Marleah Blom, Miranda D'AmicoChapter 8: Learning, NOT Playing: Mixed Method Analysis of Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Perceptions on Children's Play by Ilfa ZhulamanovaChapter 9: Games at College: Furthering Pedagogical and Co-Curricular Goals through Play by Abby Loebenberg, Robert Mack, Lauren BongiornoIndexAbout the Contributors