The Power in Pretend (eBook)

Supporting Children's Power, Identity, and Agency

Mike Huber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
173 Seiten
Redleaf Press (Verlag)
978-1-60554-849-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Understand power and identity in childrens play.The Power in Pretend questions and sheds light on the ways children play with ideas of power. Childrens play often tells a story of power through the roles they choose to play: exercising power over, power with, or power for peers, adults, or phenomena from the wider world. Most adults are comfortable with some roles children take on, such as dinosaurs, mothers, and firefighters. Other roles or types of play make adults uncomfortable at times, such as weapon or gun play, superhero play, or hyper-feminine princess play. Yet allowing and supporting these types of play is key to fostering childrens identity and agency.The book gives practical strategies for adults in early childhood settings to support this sense of power in pretend play and in real ways. It draws on an updated understanding of gender expression, as well as a nuanced approach to consent, and includes a contemporary understanding of the development of executive function skills and their impact on young childrens behaviors. The book also considers cultural influences on childrens play and adults reactions, as well as how peer interactions and play may be affected by differences among children.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Schlagworte: Agency • Behavior Management • Child Development • Conflict Resolution • consent • Culture • Early childhood education • Educators • Elementary School • Executive Function • Gender expression • gun play • Identity • imaginary play • Imagination • Inclusion • Kindergarten • Play • pre-K • Preschool • pretend play • princesses • risky play • superheroes • Teachers • weapon play
• ISBN-10: 1-60554-849-9 / 1605548499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60554-849-4 / 9781605548494