Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Pellegrini, Anthony D.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Description

xii, 186 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series, children's play in society

Uniform Title

SUNY series, children's play in society.

Subject

• School recess breaks
• Play > United States
• Child development
• Educational surveys > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 079142183X
• 0791421848 (pbk.)

LCCN

93050547

OCLC

• 29595386
• ocm29595386

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries