Forming Ethical Identities in Early Childhood Play

by Brian Edmiston

Book Overview

Through compelling examples, Brian Edmiston presents the case for why and how adults should play with young children to create with them a 'workshop for life'.

In a chapter on 'mythic play' Edmiston confronts adult discomfort over children's play with pretend weapons, as he encourages adults both to support children's desires to experience in imagination the limits of life and death, and to travel with children on their transformational journeys...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041543548X
• ISBN13: 9780415435482
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"