Main description:

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.

Contents:

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I. Play, Curriculum and Culture
Chapter 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 Ferholt
Chapter 3: Home-Based Child Care Providers' Perspectives about Play, Curriculum, and Quality Improvement Initiatives by Alison Hooper, Juana Gaviria-Loaiza, Cailin Kerch
Section II. Play and Curriculum In Stem
Chapter 4: Facilitating Mathematical Thinking in Preschool Play: Findings of The CECE Math-Play Studies by Sudha Swaminathan, Jeffrey Trawick-Smith
Chapter 5: Exploring the Role of Free Play in Elementary Science by Brian A. Stone, Lora Lorentsen, Meghan Schmidt
Chapter 6: Thinking Outside the Woods: Teacher's story of Urban Nature and Inviting the Wild into the City Classroom by Heather Pinedo-Burns
Section III. Play, Teachers and Higher Education
Chapter 7: Play in Higher Education: Emergent Understandings of Play Pedagogy for Adult Learners in Early Childhood Teacher Education Programs by Marleah Blom, Miranda D'Amico
Chapter 8: Learning, NOT Playing: Mixed Method Analysis of Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Perceptions on Children's Play by Ilfa Zhulamanova
Chapter 9: Games at College: Furthering Pedagogical and Co-Curricular Goals through Play by Abby Loebenberg, Robert Mack, Lauren Bongiorno
Index
About the Contributors