Volume 1, Number 2

Volume 1, Number 2•Fall 2008

Interview

What's Wrong with America's Playgrounds and How to Fix Them: An Interview with Joe L. Frost

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Articles

The Nature of Play: An Overview

Thomas Henricks

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Jay Mechling

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The Recess Debate: A Disjuncture between Educational Policy and Scientific Research

Anthony D. Pellegrini

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Cats and Portals: Video Games, Learning, and Play

James Paul Gee

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Play Therapy: Practice, Issues, and Trends

Linda E. Homeyer and Mary O. Morrison

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Book Reviews

Dorothy G. Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, eds., Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Doris Bergen

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Artin Göncü and Suzanne Gaskins, eds., Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural, and Functional Perspectives

Robyn M. Holmes

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Jeff Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

Gary Cross

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Patricia Campbell Warner, When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear

Wanda Wakefield

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Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris Bergen, eds., Play from Birth to Twelve: Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings

Arne Trageton

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James Paul Gee, Good Video Games + Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy and "Don't Bother Me Mom—I'm Learning!": How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for Twenty–first Century Success—and How You Can Help!

Barrie Gunter

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Contributors

Thomas S. Henricks

Linda E. Homeyer & Mary O. Morrison

Anthony D. Pelligrini