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Russ, Sandra W., Ed.; Niec, Larissa N., Ed. – Guilford Press, 2011
Going beyond traditional play therapy, this innovative book presents a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the latest knowledge about the importance of play in child development. Leading experts describe effective strategies for addressing a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Play Therapy, Evidence Based Practice, Child Development, Behavior Modification
Tobias, Sigmund, Ed.; Fletcher, J. D., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
There is intense interest in computer games. A total of 65 percent of all American households play computer games, and sales of such games increased 22.9 percent last year. The average amount of game playing time was found to be 13.2 hours per week. The popularity and market success of games is evident from both the increased earnings from games,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Constructivism (Learning), Play, Video Games
Light, Paul, Ed.; Butterworth, George – 1992
This collection of essays illustrates various aspects of the recent trend to situate accounts of cognitive development. The essays examine contextual sensitivity in relation to ecological theories of perception and cognition, and contrast intuitive reasoning in mathematical and other scientific domains with the child's difficulty with reasoning in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Saracho, Olivia, Ed.; Spodek, Bernard, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions. This intellectual movement of wide cross-disciplinary sources reconstructs the problems of epistemology when knowledge is considered to be intrinsically social. In the first chapter, "Social Epistemology and Social…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Epistemology, Socialization, Play