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Calling All Superheroes
Calling All Superheroes: Supporting and Developing Superhero Play in the Early Years
By Tamsin Grimmer
Copyright Year 2020
Calling All Superheroes highlights the enormous potential of superhero play in supporting learning and development in early childhood. Using examples from practice, it provides guidance on how to effectively manage and implement superhero play and set appropriate boundaries in early years settings and schools.
Illustrated with engaging photographs and case studies, the book gives ideas about how superhero play can be used to promote positive values and teach children essential life skills. Offering practical strategies and questions for reflection designed to facilitate further development, chapters address important topics and challenges such as:
Child development, the characteristics of effective learning and the benefits of superhero play, including making sense of right and wrong and increasing moral awareness
How to broach difficult themes like death, killing, weapons, aggressive play and gender-related issues
Supporting children to recognise everyday heroes and how to find heroic abilities within themselves
The role of the adults in managing superhero play, engaging parents and creating effective learning environments
Written by a leading expert with 20 years’ experience in the early years sector, this book is an essential resource for early years teachers, practitioners and anyone with a key interest in young children’s education and learning.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
1. “I can fly like Superman!”
The importance of fantasy play in child development
2. “I’m going to make a gun!”
Exploring aggression and violent play
3. “I’m gonna kill you.. you’re dead!”
Dealing with notions of killing and death
4. “Boys will be boys!”
Is superhero play a question of gender?
5. “Superheroes? British Values?”
British Values and early years provision
Dr Kay Mathieson
6. “My dad is my hero!”
Exploring the real heroes in our lives
7. “Where’s my cape?”
Creating a super learning environment!
8. “Freddy’s gonna ‘get’ you!”
Effectively managing superhero play
9. “He practically lives in his Spiderman costume at home…”
Engaging with parents about superhero play
10. “To infinity and beyond!”
Encourage your children to find their super powers!
Concluding remarks
ISBN 9781138556973
Published October 8, 2019 by Routledge
211 Pages 70 Color Illustrations
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