1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162943103321

Autore

Barlet Olivier

Titolo

Contemporary African Cinema / / Olivier Barlet ; [translated by Melissa Thackway]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-62895-270-9

1-60917-497-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 p.)

Collana

African humanities and the arts

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: for an African film criticism -- The question of criticism -- Thematic continuities and ruptures -- Postcolonial cliches -- Memory and reconciliation -- Styles and strategies -- Economic perspectives -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary African Cinema identifies critical questions brought about by the evolution of the African cinema through a personal and passionate lens, rendering this book an indispensable sum of thought that challenges preconceived ideas and enriches an approach to cinema as a critical art.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438327303321

Autore

Schousboe Ivy

Titolo

Children's Play and Development : Cultural-Historical Perspectives / / edited by Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

9789400765795

9400765797

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, , 2468-8754 ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

SchousboeIvy

Winther-LindqvistDitte

Disciplina

155.418

Soggetti

Early childhood education

Developmental psychology

Educational sociology

Educational psychology

Early Childhood Education

Developmental Psychology

Sociology of Education

Educational Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1. Introduction: Children’s Play and Development; Ivy Schousboe and Ditte Winther-Lindqvist -- 2. The Structure of Fantasy Play and its Implications for Good and Evil Games; Ivy Schousboe -- 3. Playing with Social Identities; Ditte Winther-Lindqvist -- 4. Pedagogical Perspectives on Play; Daniela Cecchin -- 5. Collective Imagining in Play; Marilyn Fleer -- 6. ‘Las Divinas’. Play and Emotions in a Mexican Telenovela Performance; Gloria Quiñones -- 7. A Cultural-Historical Study of Children’s Collective Imagination in Play: A Preschooler’s Bilingual Heritage Language Development; Liang Li -- 8. Language Play: The Development of Linguistic Consciousness and Creative Speech in Early Childhood Education; Niklas Pramling and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson --  9. Play to Learn, Learn to Play – Boundary Crossing Within Zones of Proximal Development; Lars Rossen -- 10. Online



Adolescence. Real Life Development in the Virtual World of Warcraft; Halfdan Fryd Koot and Hernik Garde -- 11. Playing in Online Chat Communities; Morten Jack -- 12. The Persistence of Play and What-If Thinking; Ivy Schousboe -- 13. Cultural and Historical Influences on Conceptions and Uses of Play; Ivy Schousboe -- 14. An Activity Theory View on the Development of Playing; Bert van Oers -- 15. Play, but not Simply Play – the Anthropology of Play; Benny Karpatschof.      .

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.     .