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Examines our understanding of why children play and how it helps them to grow both emotionally and socially. The book also looks at adult games and asks why adults find it hard to play. It offers a review of the importance of play in all our lives.
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An excellent critical appraisal of research on play. Cohen offers a refreshingly open perspective, although he acknowledges that we seem to need a serious reason for play in order to justify studying it. Most research on the subject of play is done in clinics, play schools, or laboratories-not in the natural habitat of the child's home and family. As a consequence, what we see may be too artificial; we may underestimate what the child can do and misinterpret what a child does when playing. Cohen's final words are devoted to adults at play. In his opinion adults do not outgrow play, they just grow more self-conscious about it. Cohen's work would fit well in an undergraduate collection that includes some of the more traditional approaches to play: J. Piaget's Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood (1951) and V.M. Axline's Play Therapy (1969). A nice bibliography is provided. However, the book is too brief to act as a comprehensive summary of the field. It merely hits the high points, though in a very readable and entertaining style. Recommended for community college students and lower-division undergraduates.-K.L. Hartlep, California State College, Bakersfield
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Acknowledgements |
Introduction |
A History of Play |
Playing with Objects |
Playing with Other Children |
Pretending |
Playful People? |
Play Therapy |
Adult Games in a Changing World |
Endgames |
Bibliography |
Index |