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Author Fleer, Marilyn.

Title Early Learning and Development : Cultural-historical Concepts in Play.

Publication Info. Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
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Contents Cover; Early Learning and Development: Cultural-historical concepts in play; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Learning and development in play; 1 A political-pedagogical landscape; INTRODUCTION; MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE; WHAT KIND OF PROGRAM PROMOTES SUSTAINED SHARED THINKING?; THEORISING CONCEPT FORMATION IN PLAY; SUMMARY; BOOK OVERVIEW; NOTES; 2 Parallel conceptual worlds; INTRODUCTION; IMITATION AND MOTIVES; CONSCIOUSNESS OF CONCEPTS THROUGH PLAY ACTIVITY; SUMMARY; 3 Teacher beliefs about teaching concepts.
INTRODUCTIONTHE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF TEACHING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTINGS; TEACHER BELIEFS ABOUT TEACHING AND LEARNING; RECONCEPTUALISING THE CONCEPT OF `TEACHING'; THE MEDIATING ROLE OF THE TEACHER; SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT FORMATION IN MATHEMATICS; EVERYDAY CONCEPTS ABOUT MATHEMATICS; BUILDING RELATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND THINKING; SUMMARY; 4 Valued curriculum concepts in early childhood education; INTRODUCTION; DOMINANT KNOWLEDGE FORMS IN CURRICULA; EMBEDDED CONCEPTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTICE; SUMMARY; 5 Teacher knowledge of subject matter concepts; INTRODUCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS OF CONCEPTS.
THE INTELLECTUAL LIVES OF CHILDRENSUMMARY; 6 Empirical and narrative knowledge development in play; INTRODUCTION; THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND THINKING; EMPIRICAL AND NARRATIVE KNOWLEDGES; SUMMARY; 7 Children building theoretical knowledge in play; INTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE; GENERATING THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE IN PLAY-BASED PROGRAMS; A MODEL FOR BUILDING CHILDREN' S THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE IN PLAY-BASED PROGRAMS; CORE CONCEPTS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMING BY THE TEACHER; SUMMARY; NOTE; Part 2 Cultural-historical theories of play and learning.
8 Cultural-historical programs that afford play developmentINTRODUCTION; MOTIVES FOR PLAY -- BIOLOGICAL OR CULTURAL?; PLAY-BASED PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT CONCEPT FORMATION; GOLDEN KEY SCHOOLS; TOOLS OF THE MIND; DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION; SUMMARY; 9 Theories about play and learning; INTRODUCTION; ELKONIN' S THEORY OF PLAY; KRAVTSOV AND KRAVTSOVA' S THEORY OF PLAY; PRODUCER-DIRECTOR PLAY; IMAGINARY PLAY; SCENARIO ROLE PLAY; GAMES; PRODUCER GAME; PLAY AS A FORM OF CULTURAL EXPRESSION; SUMMARY; 10 The imaginative act as conceptual play; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS IMAGINATION?
Imagination as a new psychological formationimagination as a conscious act; imagination and reality; collective and individual creativity and imagination; how do imagination and creativity develop?; the importance of experience; disassociation and reassociation; imagination becomes reality; pedagogical practice for supporting the development of imagination; valuing and extending experience; imagination becomes reality; theoretical model of ecosystem; a map as a conceptual tool; disassociation and reassociation; individual imagining within the historical collective.
Note The imaginative act as conceptual play.
Summary Early Learning and Development offers new models of 'conceptual play' practice and theory.
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Subject Early childhood education -- Cross-cultural studies.
Early childhood education.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Early childhood education -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Play -- Cross-cultural studies.
Play.
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fleer, Marilyn. Early Learning and Development : Cultural-historical Concepts in Play. Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, ©2010 9780521122658
ISBN 9781107478374
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