Make-Believe Play: Wellspring for Development of Self-Regulation

Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Berk, Laura E ^a   Mann, Trisha D ^a   Ogan, Amy T ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Early childhood; Emotion control; Lev vygotsky; Make believe play; Pretense; Self regulation

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EID: 84920395234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304381.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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