Parent-Child Play : Descriptions and Implications.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (180 pages)
- SUNY Series, Children's Play in Society Series .
- SUNY Series, Children's Play in Society Series .
CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: PARENTS AND CHILDREN PLAYING by Kevin MacDonald -- 1. Dilemmas in Adult Play with Children by Brian Sutton-Smith -- PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2. Parent-Infant Games as Dynamic Social Systems by Alan Fogel, Evangeline Nwokah and Jeanne Karns -- 3. Parent-Infant Play as a Window on Infant Competence: An Organizational Approach to Assessment by Marjorie Beeghley -- 4. Parent-Child Play: An Evolutionary Perspective by Kevin MacDonald -- PART II: MECHANISMS OF PARENT-CHILD PLAY -- 5. Rough and Tumble Play: A Fundamental Brain Process by Jaak Panksepp -- 6. Lessons from Primate Play by Maxeen Biben and Stephen J. Suomi -- 7. Parent-Child Physical Play: Determinants and Consequences by James Carson, Virginia Burks, and Ross D. Parke -- 8. The Necessary Lightness of Mother-Child Play by Phyllis Levenstein and John O'Hara -- 9. Mother-Infant Play and Maternal Depression by Jeffrey F. Cohn -- PART III: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- 10. Peekaboo across Cultures: How Mothers and Infants Play with Voices, Faces, and Expectations by Anne Fernald and Daniela K. O'Neill -- 11. Gentle Play Partners: Mother-Child and Father-Child Play in New Delhi, India by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Frank H. Hooper, Mohammad Ahmeduzzaman, and Brad Pollack -- 12. "Mother, Older Sibling and Me": The Overlapping Roles of Caregivers and Companions in the Social World of Two- to Three-Year-Olds in Ngeca, Kenya by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice B. Whiting -- 13. Persistence of Play and Feeding Interaction Differences in Three Miami Cultures by Tiffany M. Field -- 14. Cultural Differences In Scaffolding Pretend Play: A Comparison of American and Mexican Mother-Child and Sibling-Child Pairs by Jo Ann M. Farver. 15. The Cultural Context of Mother-Infant Play in the Newborn Period by J. Kevin Nugent, Sheila Greene, Dorit Wieczoreck-Deering, Kathleen M. Mazor, John Hendler, and Cynthia Bombardier -- CONTRIBUTORS.