If distinct and well-equipped activity centers" are available, the kindergarten becomes an absorbing child-centered open classroom" with the entire time free play/free work time." (Author/SP)

The author is concerned that the natural lifestyle displayed by young children not be distorted by the system." Who, then, is most fit to give leadership? (Editor)

The Great Georges Project, a community center and contemporary arts center in an old church in Liverpool, England, provides theater and music workshops, shows, and play groups for adults. (EB)

Theatre, particularly the use of puppet shows and games, can play an important role in the development of the personality of the preschool child. (NH)

Extends the rationale for integrating handicapped with nonhandicapped children to include the mainstreaming of infants in group care programs. (RH)

With special emphasis on the implications of research findings, issues related to play and learning in general are examined and related to information about the play of handicapped children. Concluding remarks focus on the issue of whether handicapped children can be helped to optimal development through play. (RH)

Twenty-two subjects (school-age children, their younger siblings, and their best friends) were observed in their homes while playing a popular board game. Five roles were operationalized and observed: teacher, learner, manager, managee, and playmate. (Author/RH)

The concepts upon which current playgrounds are designed are examined. Recommendations made for playground designers involve: (1) realizing all play is "normal"; (2) redirecting thinking on safety factors in planning; (3) designing equipment for the environment it will be used in; (4) broadening guidelines for equipment design; and (5)…

Parents are given suggestions of home activities to stimulate their preschool child who may be exceptionally bright, creatively gifted, advanced in reading or advanced in math. It is recommended that parents use these activities in spontaneous play situations. (CL)

The most widely used limits reported by psychoanalytic, nondirective and other therapists pertained to protection of playroom equipment, safety and health, and physical attacks upon the therapist; least used limits were those associated with symbolic expression. Results closely approximate the 1961 and 1963 investigations of Ginott and Lebo.…

Investigates age differences in the impact of play on subsequent tool-use, the influences of task characteristics on the impact of play on tool-use, the ways play aids tool-use, and the effect of play richness on tool-use among 30 children in each of three age groups (from four to five, six to seven, and eight to ten years of age). (RH)

Traces the concept of solitary play through a review of the available research, queries whether solitary play is an indicator of social immaturity or autonomous achievement striving, and calls for further research in this area. (Author/MP)

A sandplay technique is explained to have helped learning and reading disabled students get in touch with their feelings as well as to have improved their reading skills. (CL)