Where do the children play? : a study guide to the film / edited by Elizabeth Goodenough.
Material type: TextPublication details: [Detroit : Wayne State University Press], c2007Description: xviii, 231 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 1425589332
- 9781425589332
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Circulating Books | Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | Children's Collection | SB457 .G653 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3182700013288 |
Includes bibliographical references.
In addition to information on the making of the film Where do the children play?, includes a number of essays on various aspects of children and play.
I. Making a documentary film. Jennifer White (executive producer) -- Christopher Cook (producer and director) -- Mark Harris (consulting producer) -- Michigan children as documentary filmmakers / Jeff Kupperman -- II. Back story on play. An historical imperative to save play / Joe L. Frost -- A monument to play / Mary Ruth Moore -- The palace of green porcelain / Jeanne Schinto -- A summer day on Island Park / Jonathan Fairbanks -- III. Public spaces and inclusive play. If children ruled the world : diversity and urban design / Claire Gallagher -- Wildlands for children / Roger Hart -- Playworkers and the adventure play movement / Penny Wilson -- A childhood shaped by a ghost town / Ronald L. Fleming -- Front porch : a youth program based solely on relationships / Jean Vortkamp -- IV. In, around and after school. Safe routes to Detroit schools : photo essay / Hugh McDiarmid and Brad Garmon -- Play in conflict / Vejoya Viren --
Creating natural play spaces / Frode Svane and Rhonda Clements -- After-school programs : positive places in unsafe urban communities / Bart Hirsch -- Where is this taking place? / Mark Stranahan -- The neutral zone / Jacob Simmons -- V. Remote-controlled childhood. Screen time versus play time : the radical transformation of early childhood education / Edward Miller -- Problem solving deficit disorder : creative versus programmed play in Korea and the US / Diane E. Levin -- Psychological spaces for play / Susan Linn -- VI. Bring back play. Changing the way we think about play / Robert Lavelle -- Elemental play : encouraging children to connect with earth, wind, water, and fire / Martha Travers -- Treasured islands : the lifelong impact of outdoor play / Jan Drucker and Lorayne Carbon -- The visual journal : you and Memory Project / Nancy Wolfe -- Ten ways to help children love nature / Avery Cleary -- VII. Places families grow. The exceptional botany of belief / Thylias Moss --
Empathy, imagination, and freedom : children at play on the shore of endless worlds / Ellen Handler Spitz -- Playful outdoor memories / Sharon Schneider and Joyce Hemphill -- What Halloween masks / Cindy Clark -- Family reunion 2007 : searching for bison in Utah / Jonathan Faribanks -- VIII. Children's portfolio : "the world is round so let it spin." Notes on experts and filmmakers in "Where do the children play?"