Play as Engagement and Communication [Paperback]

A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play,Play as Engagement and Communicationcontinues the stimulating and informative volumes in thePlay and Culture Studiesseries. Students, play scholars, and play practitioners will gain information from groundbreaking studies, philosophical treatises, and in-depth reviews of current knowledge on child-child, child-adult, and child-animal play.Play and Culture Studiesis the main publication ofThe Association for the Study of Play.Volume 10 includes such topics as student experiences with child play in hospitals, ethnographic studies of preschool play, and the connection between children and animals. The primary focus of the papers in this volume is to reflect on the close relationship between play and the process of engaging and communicating with others in different contexts.Eva E. Nwokahis an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has held faculty and clinical positions in four countries. Her research interests are in language, play, narrative skills, and social interaction in families, between mothers and infants, and child peer interaction. Her recent work has focused on humor and language play in social interaction. She has been actively involved in local adolescent parenting programs and the implementation of clinical and educational support for language and literacy intervention with high-risk families.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 I. Child Play with Adults and with Animals
Chapter 4 1. The Therapuetic Benefits of Play for Hospitalized Children
Chapter 5 2. Play between Children and Domestic Animals
Chapter 6 3. Mothers' Social and Didactic Actions during Play: Contribution of Infant Affect
Part 7 II. The Complexities of Child-Child Play in Different Contexts
Chapter 8 4. The Reality of Pretend Play: Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Gender Variations in Young Children's l)