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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807130303321

Autore

Pellegrini Anthony D

Titolo

School recess and playground behavior : educational and developmental roles / / Anthony D. Pellegrini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1995

ISBN

1-4384-1578-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 186 p

Collana

SUNY series, children's play in society

Disciplina

371.2/424

Soggetti

School recess breaks

Play - United States

Child development

Educational surveys - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Children on the Playground at Recess: What's So Important? -- 2. Playgrounds and Children's Behavior at Recess -- 3. Theory and Method -- 4. Dimensions of the Playground and Children's Behavior: Implications for Social Cognition Development -- 5. The Effects of Recess Timing on Elementary School Children's Recess and Classroom Behavior -- 6. Longitudinal Relations between Playground Behavior and Cognition: Explorations in Social Dimensions of Cognition -- 7. The Rough-and-Tumble Play of Primary School Children: Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Relations -- 8. Preference for Outdoor Play during Early Adolescence -- 9. Longitudinal Relations between Social Networks and Adjustment to Middle School -- 10. Adolescent Boys' Rough-and-Tumble Play -- 11. Conclusions and Implications -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T.