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Play, School, and Society

Edited and Introduced by Mary Jo Deegan

by Mary Jo Deegan (Author)
©2006 Monographs CXI, 157 Pages
Series: American University Studies , Volume 71

Summary

«Play» is central to the ideas of George Herbert Mead and fundamental to the emergence of all social behavior. It is formative in the genesis of self-consciousness and a pathway connecting intersubjectivity and emotions. The child’s play calls out the parental attitude, and this relationship becomes a model for the community and society. Mead’s ideas emerged from an interacting circle of scholars and activists in Chicago including John Dewey, Jane Addams, and Mary McDowell.

Details

Pages
CXI, 157
Year
2006
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820438238
Language
English
Keywords
Teaching Education Learning Emotion Community Social behavior Intersubjectivity
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 1999, 2001, 2006. CXI, 157 pp., 8 ill.

Biographical notes

Mary Jo Deegan (Author)

The Editor: Mary Jo Deegan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to more than 125 articles and chapters, Professor Deegan has written Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918, and American Ritual Dramas. She also edited Women and Disability, Women and Symbolic Interaction, and Women in Sociology, and American Ritual Tapestry.

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