Children spend much of their youthful energy engaged in play. Indeed, play, in its various
forms, represents a serious business–not only for the active participations, but also for�…

During play, children also increase their social competence and emotional maturity.
Smilansky and Shefatya (1990) contend that school success largely depends on children's�…

In this research the role and importance of play in early childhood development were
pointed. For the last decades, play has been widely seen as an extremely important activity�…

Over the past half century, in the United States and other developed nations, children's free
play with other children has declined sharply. Over the same period, anxiety, depression�…

There is growing interest in the use of play as an assessment paradigm in the field of early
childhood special education in order to supplement the results of standardized tests�…

Explore the causes, correlates, and consequences of individual differences in young
children's social play. As is the case with most every psychological phenomenon, social play�…

This paper draws upon research from a number of disciplines to examine the significance of
children's play. It concludes that play may well be central to normal personality development�…

I must say that my first impression of the third edition of Play and Child Development was: ey
did it AGAIN! Frost, Wortham, and Reifel again impressed me with the depth and breadth of�…

The study of children's play: Some suggested future directions Page 1 A summary of the
literature concerning those individual differences, and situational and developmental variables�…

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