Taking Play Seriously: A Challenge of Learning

In the book the author is focusing the importance of play for children from 0 years up to 8-12 years of age e.g. in ECE centers and elementary schools. In particular the importance of play for learning through motivation as related to self-competence inspiration and engagement. In this second edition the author is emphasizing more thoroughly the importance of play as a challenge of learning with implications for children as well as for teachers. Further the author is referring to how meaning making in children’s production of multi-module narrative products can contribute to their digital personal formation. The selection of theories presented in the second edition is somewhat expanded and in the end the author is presenting a few important educational challenges of the field of children’s play.