Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Playce-Based Language and Literacy Learning in Early Childhood / Shelley Stagg Peterson & Nicola Friedrich
  • Valuing Rural and Indigenous Social Practices: Play as Placed Learning in Kindergarten Classrooms / Karen Eppley, Shelley Stagg Peterson, & Denise Heppner
  • Seven Directions Early Learning for Indigenous Land Literacy Wisdom / Sharla Peltier
  • SaÌ?mi Children's Language Use, Play, and the Outdoors Through Teachers' Lenses / Kristina Belancic
  • Young Children Exploring Identities, Languages and Cultures in a Multicultural Place / Maria Cooper & Helen Hedges
  • Placing the Child's Hands on the Land: Conceptualizing, Creating, and Implementing Land-Based Teachings in a Play Space / Lori Huston & Stephanie Michano-Drover
  • Negotiating a Place to Belong in an Aotearoa New Zealand Playgroup / Mary M. Jacobs
  • The Importance of the Land, Language, Culture, Identity and Learning in Relations for Indigenous Children / Jeffrey Wood
  • If Writing Floats "on a Sea of Talk", How Best to Harness the Waves and Currents of Place and Play? / Judy Parr
  • Scaffolding Community Literacy Practices in Kindergarten Classrooms / Nicola Friedrich
  • Children's Engagement and Inquiry in Outdoors Contexts as Play and Place-based Learning / Gisela Wajskop
  • Enriching Learning with the Richness Around Us / Christine Portier
  • Exploring Imaginative Play-Based As a Stimulus for 'Language in Action' and 'Language as Reflection' / Janet Scull & Kim O'Grady
  • The Key Role of the Educator as a Conversational Partner in Play and Place-based Learning / Janice Greenberg & Sharon Walker
  • Language Learning in the Garden: Discoveries from a Collaboration in a North-Central Saskatchewan Indigenous Community / Laureen J. McIntyre, Laurie-ann M. Hellsten, & Tyler Bergen
  • Conclusion: Questions and Implications Arising from Playce-Based Learning in Communities across Four Continents / Shelley Stagg Peterson
  • Places and Players: An Afterword / Michael Corbett.