Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: RESEARCHERS' VOICES -- Chapter One. Children's Playful Consumption: The Hidden Negotiations of the Playground and the Home -- Chapter Two. Children's Play Preferences in the Pacific Rim: Then and Now -- Chapter Three. Implementing a Playful Pedagogy in a Standards-Driven Curriculum: Rationale for Action Research in Teacher Education -- Chapter Four. Family Words as Creative and Affiliative Play -- Section II. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: THEORISTS' VOICES -- Chapter Five. The Conservation of Meaning as a Function of Constraints in the Social Context of Puzzles: Piaget's Social Theory Revisited -- Chapter Six. Pinpointing Play at the Edge of the Uncanny Valley -- Section III. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: VOICES FROM TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter Seven. Play, Technology Toy Affordances, and Brain Development-Research Needs and Policy Issues -- Chapter Eight. Game-ify Learning: Using What We Know about Games and Play to Motivate Learners -- Section IV. A POLYPHONY OF PLAY: ADVOCATES' VOICES -- Chapter Nine. Play in the New Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Analysis and Critique -- Chapter Ten. Preserving Play in Early Childhood Classrooms: Suggestions for Early Childhood Teacher Education and Policy -- Index -- Contributors.