1st Edition
A Vygotskian Approach to Play Development Practical Applications for Preschool Teachers
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PART 1. CONCEPT OF PLAY: CULTURAL-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PLAY
Chapter 1.1. The Cultural-Historical Approach to Child Development: Understanding Play as a Leading Activity
Milda Bredikyte
Chapter 1.2. Playing together and the incentives created by engaging in what-if scenarios
Niklas Pramling, Eva Johansson, and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Chapter 1.3. The Cultural Shaping of Thought: Vygotsky and Bruner
Kathy Sylva, Rasnaam Kaur
Chapter 1.4. Researcher’s perspective on play: How researchers in an educational experiment develop play practices with teachers and engineers
Marilyn Fleer, Monique Parkes, Anne Suryani, Ashwairi Kansakar, Jaideep Upadhyay, Sarah Thomas D’Alterio
PART 2. TREASURES OF PLAY: THE ROLE OF PLAY IN A CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 2.1. Play as a Space for the Manifestation of Imagination and Creative Thinking in Preschool Children
Olga Shiyan, Igor Shiyan
Chapter 2.2. Self-Regulation in Young Children’s Play: How the Player’s Role and Shared Play Perform Invisible but Crucial Work
Agnė Brandišauskienė, Milda Bredikyte
Chapter 2.3. Play and emotional attunement: attuning and creating emotions in play
Giedrė Sujetaitė-Volungevičienė
Chapter 2.4. Play and Children’s Stories
Olga Shiyan, Igor Shiyan, Anna Iakshina
Chapter 2.5. A pedagogical model of a Conceptual PlayWorld: A synthesis of play and learning
Marilyn Fleer
Chapter 2.6. Unleash the Child's Full Potential Today: Balancing between Families’ Cultural Expectations and Children’s Motivation for Developing Science and Mathematics Concepts through Play
Anamika Devi, Jennifer Cutri
Chapter 2.7. Playing with Language
Annerieke Boland
Chapter 2.8. Object-Oriented Play as a Foundation for Pretend Play
Elizabeth Wynberg, Annerieke Boland
Chapter 2.9. Play and entrance to new culture (of kindergarten): How cultural tools help to co-regulate in pretend play?
Giedrė Sujetaitė-Volungevičienė
PART 3. PLAY SUPPORT - THE ROLE OF AN ADULT IN SUPPORTING PLAY
Chapter 3.1 Play Development from 2 to 7 Years
Milda Bredikyte
Chapter 3.2 Creating Environments for Play: Space, Time and Resource Matters
Mandy Andrews, Cassie Grijalvo
Chapter 3.3. Play Environment Rating Scale: representation of ideal form of play in environment and assessment for development
Anna Iakshina, Igor Shiyan, Olga Shiyan
Chapter 3.4. Mixed-age play: the zone of proximal development for older and younger children
Anna Iakshina
Chapter 3.5. Cultural-Historical Approach to the Teacher’s Role in Collaborative Play with Children
Anna Iakshina
Chapter 3.6. Conditions for Playful Adults in Kindergarten
Annerieke Boland, Ilse van Aerden
3.7. Narrative Play and Learning Pedagogy for Promoting Children’s Independent Play
Milda Bredikyte, Monika Skerytė-Kazlauskienė
Biography
Anna Iakshina, PhD, is an educational and developmental psychologist, a national ECERS expert. She is a researcher and lecturer in Laboratory of child development (Moscow City University).
Milda Bredikyte is a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania since 2018. She teaches child development, narrative learning through play, and the Vygotskian theory of cultural development in childhood.
Igor Shiyan, PhD, Leader of “ChildLab” project (Wise Hart Ltd, UK). He has over 30 years of experience researching creativity, dialectical thinking, and anticipation in children and adults, as well as multiculturalism in education, based on Vygotsky’s approach.
