Children's Play in Child Care Settings Book

	Introduction	1
1	Adult Socialization of Children's Play in Child Care	20
2	Peer Play and Nonparental Care Experiences	37
3	Family Dynamics and Day Care Children's Peer Group Participation	53
4	Infant Day Care Facilitates Later Social Behavior and School Performance	69
5	The Relationship of Child-Care Quality and Play to Social Behavior in the Kindergarten	85
6	Dramatic Play in Day Care: What Happens When Doctors, Cooks, Bakers, Pirates and Pharmacists Invade the Classroom?	102
7	Play, Story-song, and Eating Times in Child Care: Caregiver Responses to Toddlers and Threes	119
8	The Play Behaviors of Special Needs Children in Integrated and Non-integrated Child-Care Settings	148
9	Social and Non-Social Play of Infants and Toddlers in Family Day Care	163
10	Play, Talk, Literacy and the Ecology of Family Day Care	193
11	Conclusion: Emerging Ecological Perspectives on Play and Child Care	214
	Index	223