A-Z of play in early childhood / Janet Moyles.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- A: Active learning through play -- Adult-initiated/guided play -- Adult play -- Assessment and play -- Autotelic activity -- B: Baby play -- Behaviours and play -- Brain studies/neuroscience and play -- C -- Child-initiated play -- Cognitive play and learning and metacognition -- Consumerism/commercialism and play -- Creativity and play -- Culture and play -- Curriculum and play -- D -- Decision-making and play -- Deep-level learning and play -- Dispositions to play and learning -- E -- Emotional development and play -- Environments for play -- Exploratory/epistemic play -- F -- First-hand experience -- Flow/free-flow play -- Forest School and play -- Fun -- G -- Games play -- Gender and play -- H -- Health and play -- Heuristic play -- Humour and play -- I -- Iconic and symbolic learning and play -- Imaginative play/imaginary friends -- Inclusion, equality and play

Contents note continued: Independence and self-regulation in play -- J -- Jargon of play -- J̀unk' (found/recycled materials) and play -- K -- Key Persons and play -- Kinaesthetic play -- L -- Language and communication play -- Listening to children at play -- Ludic play -- M -- Mastery play -- Messy play -- Moral development and play -- Motivation and play -- N -- Narrative play and story -- Natural world and play -- Negotiation skills and play -- O -- Object play -- Outdoor play -- Ownership -- P -- Parents and play -- Photography and play -- Physical play -- Planning for play/playfulness -- Q -- Quality play -- Questioning -- Quiet play -- R -- Recapitulative play -- Reflecting on play -- Risk/risky play -- Role-play/pretend play/fantasy play -- Rough and tumble -- S -- Schemas and play -- Social development and play -- Socio-dramatic play -- Superhero play -- Symbolic play -- T -- Technology and play -- Therapeutic (cathartic) play -- Transformational play -- Types of play.

Contents note continued: U -- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- right to play -- Universality of play -- V -- Values in play and playfulness -- Voice -- children's voices in play -- W -- Wii play -- Work/play dimensions -- XYZ -- Xbox -- Young children -- Youth play -- Zero-in on play -- Zigler.