Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Play, Performance, Learning, and Development: Exploring the Relationship -- Part I. PLAY AND PERFORMANCE IN TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION -- Chapter One. Playworlds-An Art of Development -- Chapter Two. Complicating the Role of Play in Building Classroom Community -- Chapter Three. Play Intervention and Play Development1 -- Chapter Four. Critical Performative Pedagogy in Urban Teacher Education: Voices from the Field -- Chapter Five. Bringing Out the Playful Side of Mathematics: Using Methods from Improvisational Theater in Professional Development for Urban Middle School Math Teachers -- Part II. PROMOTING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT USING PERFORMANCE -- Chapter Six. Play as a Staging Ground for Performance and Life -- Chapter Seven. Playing with Asperger's Syndrome: "We're not supposed to be able to do this, are we?" -- Chapter Eight. Social Therapy with Children with Special Needs and Their Families -- Part III. NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF PLAY AND PERFORMANCE -- Chapter Nine. Play as Deconstruction -- Chapter Ten. Performing Groups as Distributed Creative Systems: A Case Study -- Index.