Early Education and Care, and Reconceptualizing Play

Introduction / Stuart Reife -- Globalization and its discontents: early childhood education in a new world order / Sally Lubeck, Patricia A. Jessup, Abigail M. Jewkes -- Child care quality: a model for examining relevant variables / Eva L. Essa, Melissa M. Burnham -- Professional development and the quality of child care: an assessment of Pennsylvania's child care training system / Joyce Iutcovich, Richard Fiene, James Johnson, Ross Koppel, Frances Langan -- Professional caring as mothering / Noelene McBride, Susan Grieshaber -- The thematic unit: old hat or new shoes? / C. Stephen White, Greta G. Fein, Brenda H. Manning, Anne Daniel -- "Air is a kind of wind": argumentation and the construction of knowledge / Sue Dockett, Bob Perry -- "We don't play that way at preschool": the moral and ethical dimensions of controlling children's play / Mac H. Brown, Nancy K. Freeman -- The dangerously radical concept of free play / David Kuschner -- Play and diverse cultures: implications for early childhood education / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, James E. Johnson -- Under the lens: the play-literacy relationship in theory and practice / Kathleen A. Roskos, James F. Christie -- The play frame and the "fictional dream": the bidirectional relationship between metaplay and story writing / Jeffrey Trawick-Smith