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Making Sense of Play: Supporting Children in Their Play

By: Publication details: United Kingdom; Open University Press; 2014Description: 208 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780335247103
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 649.5
Summary: This book describes how adults can support children's free play, with an approach that is holistic, inclusive and practical, giving clear explanations of tools to help understand better ways of relating to and providing for playing children. Key terms are put in plain words, along with varied examples. These models are then used to explore creativity, the ways in which children play, how provision might be improved and how the approaches can be used to research practice. Perry Else is Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, also over the past 30 years working for a variety of UK organisations and authorities, helping plan and deliver services for children.
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Education 649.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC000855
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Education 649.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn For Sale PKLC005291
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This book describes how adults can support children's free play, with an approach that is holistic, inclusive and practical, giving clear explanations of tools to help understand better ways of relating to and providing for playing children. Key terms are put in plain words, along with varied examples. These models are then used to explore creativity, the ways in which children play, how provision might be improved and how the approaches can be used to research practice. Perry Else is Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, also over the past 30 years working for a variety of UK organisations and authorities, helping plan and deliver services for children.

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