Play = Learning (eBook, ePUB)

How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

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In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that in over-emphasizing academic achievement, our culture has forgotten about the importance of play for children's development.

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Dorothy G. Singer received her doctorate in School Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University. She is also Co-Director, with Jerome L. Singer, of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center. An expert on early childhood development, television effects on youth and parent training in imaginative play, she has written 20 books and over 150 articles. Her latest books are Handbook of Children and the Media , Make-Believe: Games and Activities for Imaginative Play and Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age. She co-edited Children's Play: Roots of Reading,, which was selected for CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Title list. She received the award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to the Media by Division 46 of APA in 2004. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff obtained her doctorate from Cornell University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center, she joined the University of Delaware. She holds a Chair in the School of Education, with joint appointments in Psychology and Linguistics. A Guggenheim Fellow and a James McKeen Cattell award winner, she has written dozens of journal articles, chapters and academic books, the latest of which is Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs (OUP 2005) co-edited with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. She lectures internationally and has written two popular books with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek: How Babies Talk and Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, which was awarded the Multiple Sclerosis Society's Books for a Better Life award. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is the Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Professor in the Department of Psychology at Temple University, where she serves as Director of the Infant Language Laboratory. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. Her research in the areas of early language development and infant cognition has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and Human Development, resulting in 9 books and numerous publications. She is a Fellow of the APA and the American Psychological Society, serves as the Associate Editor of Child Development , and is treasurer of the International Association for Infant Studies. She has published more than 100 professional articles and has given over 80 invited lectures around the world.