Understanding Young Children's Learning Through Play : Building Playful Pedagogies (Hardcover)

Introduction  1. Creating and sustaining open-ended play spaces: giving children space to think, play and learn  2. Young playful learners in open-ended play environments  3. Growing up with open-ended role play, becoming competent, confident players and learners  4. Objects, resources, places, spaces and themes; the role of the adult in helping play to work  5. Building friendships and recognising shared interests  Observing, assessing, recording and planning  7. The potential for open-ended play in Key Stage 1  8. Building a community of playful learners; children, practitioners and parents with shared understandings