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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778167103321

Autore

Singer Dorothy G

Titolo

Imagination and play in the electronic age [[electronic resource] /] / Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-04369-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SingerJerome L

Disciplina

306.481

Soggetti

Play

Imagination in children

Television and children

Computers and children

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Our Conscious Imagination -- 2. Play: Its Beginnings and Stages -- 3. Television and Imagination -- 4. Violent Themes in Play, TV Content, and Video Games -- 5. Adrift in Cyberspace: Children and Computer Play -- 6. A Role for Play in Early Learning -- Epilogue -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media.