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Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age / Jerome L. Singer, Dorothy G. Singer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674017450
  • 9780674043695
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.481
LOC classification:
  • BF717 -- S5145 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674043695

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)