1. Why play = learning : a challenge for parents and educators / Roberta Michnik Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Dorothy G. Singer
pt. 1. Challenges to play
2. The cognitive child versus the whole child : lessons from 40 years of Head Start / Edward F. Zigler and Sandra J. Bishop-Josef
3. The role of recess in primary school / Anthony D. Pellegrini and Robyn M. Holmes
pt. 2. School readiness-school standards
4. Standards, science, and the role of play in early literacy education / James F. Christie and Kathleen A. Roskos
5. Make-believe play : wellspring for development of self-regulation / Laura E. Berk, Trisha D. Mann, and Amy T. Ogan
6. 'My magic story car' : video-based play intervention to strengthen emergent literacy of at-risk preschoolers / Harvey F. Bellin and Dorothy G. Singer
7. Narrative play and emergent literacy : storytelling and story-acting meet journal writing / Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Judith McDowell, and Carolyn Brockmeyer
8. Mathematical play and playful mathematics : a guide for early education / Herbert P. Ginsburg
pt. 3. Media and computers
9. Media use by infants and toddlers : a potential for play / Deborah S. Weber
10. Computer as paintbrush : technology, play, and the creative society / Mitchel Resnick
pt. 4. Play with dysfunctional children
11. Pretend play and emotion learning in traumatized mothers and children / Wendy Haight, James Black, Teresa Ostler, and Kathryn Sheridan
12. Play and autism : facilitating symbolic understanding / Melissa Allen Preissler
13. Learning to play and learning through play / Jerome L. Singer
