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Where do the children play? : a study guide to the film / edited by Elizabeth Goodenough.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Detroit : Wayne State University Press], c2007Description: xviii, 231 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1425589332
  • 9781425589332
Subject(s):
Contents:
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?"
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Circulating Books Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Children's Collection SB457 .G653 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3182700013288
Total holds: 0

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?"

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