Preface Introduction, Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris Bergen Part I Perspectives on Play Development 1 Play Development from Birth to Age Four, Barbara P. Garner and Doris Bergen 2 Play Development from Ages Four to Eight Years, James E. Johnson3 Play and Socialization in Middle Childhood, Doris Bergen and Doris P. Fromberg 4 Gender Identity and Play, Melanie M. Ayres, Aliya Khan, and Leslie D. Levé5 Play as Children See It, Nancy W. Wiltz and Greta G. Fein6 Can I Play Too? Reflections on the Issues for Children with Disabilities, Gayle Mindes7. Play’s Role and Meaning in the Lives of Children with Autism, Pamela Wolfberg 8. Play and Gifted Children, Annemarie Roeper9 Play in the Context of Lifespan Human Development, Valeria J. FreysingerPart II Meanings of Play 10 The Meanings in Play with Objects, Shirley K. Morgenthaler11 Social and Nonsocial Play, Robert J. Coplan, Laura L. Ooi, Alison Kirkpatrick, and Kenneth H. Rubin12 Language and Play: Natural Partners, Jane Ilene Freeman Davidson13 Sociodramatic Play Pretending Together, Patricia Monighan Nourot14 Constructive Play, George Forman15 Rough-and-Tumble Play from Childhood through Adolescence: Differing Perspectives, Anthony D. Pellegrini, 16 Games with Rules, Rheta DeVries17 Play as a Context for Humor Development, Doris BergenPart III Educational Contexts for Play 18 Adult Influences on Play: The Vygotskian Approach, Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong19 Social Play in School, Jeffrey Trawick-Smith20 Play as a Medium for Literacy Development, James F. Christie and Kathleen Roskos21 Play and Mathematics in Kindergarten, Constance Kamii 22 Scientific Inquiry and Exploratory Representational Play, Christopher R. Wolfe, R. Hays Cummins, Christopher A. Myer, and Elizabeth M. Cedillos23 Technology Play and Learning, Lena Lee24 Technology Play Concerns, Diane E. Levin25 The Role of Play in Assessment, Diane Parham26 Reconciling Play and Assessment Standards, Doris BergenPart IV Social and Physical Contexts for Play 27 Play in Historical and Cross-Cultural Contexts, Donna R. Barnes28 Influences of Race, Culture, Social Class, and Gender: Diversity and Play, Patricia G. Ramsey29 Parent–Child and Child–Child Play in Diverse Cultural Contexts, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Aimbika Krishnakumar 30 Sibling and Peer Influences on Play, Sherri Oden, Kathleen O. Gray, and Janie A. Winn31 The Cultural and Familial Contexts of Caregiver Support for Children’s Pretend Play, Wendy Haight and Minhae Cho32 City Play, Amanda Dargan and Steve Zeitlin33 Playful Experiences for Children in Museums, Donna R. Barnes34 Children’s Outdoor Play: An Endangered Activity, Mary S. Rivkin35 Perspectives on Play and Playgrounds, Joe L. Frost and Irma C. Woods36 Play as Ritual in Health Care Settings, Laura Gaynard37 Clinical Perspectives on Play, Karen Gitlin-WeinerPart V Particular Meanings Embedded in Play38 The Struggle Between Sacred Play and Festive Play, Brian Sutton-Smith39 Fantasy and Imagination, Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer40 Sociocultural Influences on Gender-Role Behaviors in Children’s Play, Alice Sterling Honig41 Play and Violence: Understanding and Responding Effectively, Diane E. Levin42 Protean Selves, Trading Zones, and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: The Role of Play in Future Progress, Karen VanderVen43 How Nonlinear Systems Inform Meaning and Early Education, Doris Pronin Fromberg44 Play, Technology Toy Affordances and Brain Development, Doris Bergen45. Play and the Origin of Species, Michael EllisEpilogue: Emerging and Future Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings for Play, Doris Bergen and Doris Pronin FrombergContributors Index

"It is a delight to welcome this third edition of Play from Birth to Twelve, so brilliantly edited by Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris Bergen. Such 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