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Title:Play in Childhood
Author:Margaret Lowenfeld
ISBN:1845193008 : 9781845193003
Illustrations:tables
Format:Paperback
Size:152x229mm
Pages:246
Weight: .382 Kg.
Published:Sussex Academic Press - May 2008
List Price: 17.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Child & developmental psychology


This book is essential reading for all those involved in the Psychology of the Child.

Foreword (by John Davis); Preface; Introduction; Bibliography to Introduction; Historical Theories of Play; The Observation of Play; Play as Bodily Activity; Play as Repetition of Experience; Play as the Demonstration of Phantasy; Play as Realisation of Environment; Play as Preparation for Life; Group Games; The Comic Element in Play; Children who Cannot Play; Conclusion.