Download or read book Play at the Center of the Curriculum written by Judith Lieberman Van Hoorn and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource examines the natural connection between play and a young child's development. It advocates that play should be an integrated part of the early childhood curriculum and then demonstrates how to draw both the methods and the content of a successful curriculum from children's spontaneous play. Anecdotes of children's play, theories of play and development, and instructional strategies are interwoven throughout the book. Early childhood educators.