Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood

This book by Sue Docket & Marilyn Fleer will satisfy many people who are interested in play and play-based pedagogy for many reasons. For one, it has pulled together theories of play and children development from the past few decades up to the present times. This book can therefore serve as a handy reference for those with serious interest in children's play and how children learn through their play. Second, the authors have done an extremely great job in synthesizing those varied theories and presenting them in reader-friendly ways. Third, the coverge of the contents of this book is such that one can just hold on to the book and one is academically safe-- as the book presents both theoretical discussions and practical ideas in the very same volume. This book is a must-read, to say the least. Or else one will have to constantly search for numerous different volumes which might, in itself, take up one's limtless resources...