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Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it has been proposed, elaborated, and debated in disciplines from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology.

Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven...

New Zealand children from 1840 to 1890 were subjected to an unusual combination of agrarian existence and an industrial social philosophy in the newly formed schools. When schools became more universal in the expanding industrial society, a new emphasis on the control of children developed, and from 1920 onward, adult supervision in the form of heavily organized sports and playgrounds encroached more and more on the untrammeled freedom of the rural environment.

Returning to his home country of New Zealand, Brian Sutton-Smith documents the relationship between children's play and the...

Teaching and Learning Online, Volume 2, provides practical advice from academics, researchers, practitioners and designers who are currently engaged in defining, creating and delivering the increasingly important world of online learning. This powerful guide avoids trends in technology, instead focusing on the articulation and development of the learning theories that underpin the use of technology.

Topics covered include:

- Theory that informs practice - emerging models and understanding from academia;
- Research - new understandings of learning, collaborative...

Sally Sutton s tribute to the big machines that tear things down is now available as a Spanish-language board book.

Desde la enorme grua con una gran bola que gira

CRACH hasta la excavadora que los muros derrumba

PLAM todo lo relacionado con demolicion es una gran diversion

From the huge crane with a swinging ball to the toothy jaws that ram the walls, this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads showcase the gargantuan machines in all their glory.

There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this riveting board book follows them every step of the way. From clearing a pathway (screek ) to rolling the tar (squelch ) to sweeping up at the end (swish ), Roadwork is sure to delight young truck-lovers with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun.

The first section explores why play therapy is used and what play's specific role is in the classical play therapy approach. The second part is devoted to...