Front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures and tables -- List of Photographs -- Notes on the editor and contributors -- Introduction - Janet Moyles -- PART 1 Theoretical aspects of play and reflection -- 1 Practitioner reflection on play and playful pedagogies - Janet Moyles -- 2 Thinking through the challenge of a play-based curriculum Increasing playfulness via co-construction - Justine Howard and Karen McInnes -- 3 The nature of practitioners' reflection on their reflections about play - Avril Brock -- 4 Play and a constructivist approach to literacy learning Comparing settings in Norway and England - Pat Beckley -- PART 2 Reflecting on children's playful learning -- 5 Reflecting on child-initiated play - Bryonie Williams -- 6 Play as an emotional process - Estelle Martin -- 7 Listening to and learning from children's perspectives - Rebecca Webster -- 8 Reflecting on children 'playing for real' and 'really playing' in the early years - Deborah Albon -- PART 3 Reflecting on playful learning environments -- 9 The pedagogy of play(ful) learning environments - Theodora Papatheodorou -- 10 Thinking it through Rough and tumble play - Pam Jarvis and Jane George -- 11 'This is a different calculator - with computer games on' Reflecting on children's symbolic play in the digital age - Maulfry Worthington -- 12 A place for play Creating complex learning environments - Pauline Trudell -- PART 4 Reflecting on playful contexts -- 13 Thinking through transition, pedagogy and play from early childhood education to primary - Kevin Kelman and Linda Lauchlan -- 14 Thinking through the uses of observation and documentation - Stephanie Collins, Jane Gibbs, Paulette Luff, Maria Sprawling and Lynsey Thomas -- Afterword - Janet Moyles -- Author index -- Subject index -- Back cover.