The cultural construction of play

By S. Gaskins, W. Haight, D. Lancy. 2007

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Subfields: Education

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In Education

1. Marilyn Fleer
2. D. Lancy
3. M. Kline

Citations in the corpus

• Accounting for variability in mother-child play (2007, background): “And aside from an unwillingness to play with children themselves, adults may harbor doubts about the value of play in general (Gaskins et al. 2007; Lancy 2001).”
• ‘Conceptual Play’: Foregrounding Imagination and Cognition during Concept Formation in Early Years Education (2011, background): “Whilst play is a contested area (see Gaskins et al, 2007; Brooker, 2010), and a range of definitions of play may be found within the literature (see Brock, 2009; Fleer, 2009), it is generally understood that in Western communities play activity can be child directed, adult led, or jointly…”