Sunset ideas for children's rooms & play yards

Celebrated for its themes of postwar alienation, Anna Sokolow’s Rooms (1954) also subverts 1950s expectations for gendered and sexualized bodies onstage. Rooms’ vignettes reveal qu...

Research has shown that a child's social and academic success can be greatly influenced by experiences from infancy and toddlerhood. Despite this knowledge, the importance of infan...

This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around play and explores play in the broadest sense. It deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic ...

Abstract This book provides a holistic and diachronic approach to investigating the lives and social identities of children throughout the ninth to fourth centuries ...

Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contempo...

Chapter 7, “Child-Affirming Artifacts,” uses ideas from Vygotskian theory to describe the child-affirming artifacts that populated children’s homes. Some artifacts were widely dist...

Abstract This book explores the protection of children in our increasingly tumultuous world. It examines ways to effectively shield children from harm and vulnerabil...