Download or read book Practice-Based Research in Children's Play written by Russell, Wendy and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a growing awareness in recent years of the importance of play in children's learning and development--but that awareness has not been accompanied by sufficient scholarly attention, outside of conceptual studies and how-to textbooks. This collection fills that gap by bringing together scholars from a range of fields and methodological approaches to look at play from a practice-based perspective. Moving beyond the dominant voice of developmental psychology, the book offers a number of new ways of approaching children's play and the roles of adults in supporting it; as a result, it will be valuable to anyone working with or studying children at play.