Play=learning : how play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and social-emotional growth / edited by Dorothy G. Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why play = learning : a challenge for parents and educators / Roberta Michnik Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Dorothy G. Singer -- The cognitive child versus the whole child : lessons from 40 years of Head Start / Edward F. Zigler and Sandra J. Bishop-Josef -- The role of recess in primary school / Anthony D. Pellegrini and Robyn M. Holmes -- Standards, science, and the role of play in early literacy education / James F. Christie and Kathleen A. Roskos -- Make-believe play : wellspring for development of self-regulation / Laura E. Berk, Trisha D. Mann, and Amy T. Ogan -- 'My magic story car' : video-based play intervention to strengthen emergent literacy of at-risk preschoolers / Harvey F. Bellin and Dorothy G. Singer -- Narrative play and emergent literacy : storytelling and story-acting meet journal writing / Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Judith McDowell, and Carolyn Brockmeyer -- Mathematical play and playful mathematics : a guide for early education / Herbert P. Ginsburg -- Media use by infants and toddlers : a potential for play / Deborah S. Weber -- Computer as paintbrush : technology, play, and the creative society / Mitchel Resnick -- Pretend play and emotion learning in traumatized mothers and children / Wendy Haight ... [et al.] -- Play and autism : facilitating symbolic understanding / Melissa Allen Preissler -- Learning to play and learning through play / Jerome L. Singer.