Dramatic Play--An Integrative Process for Learning

Explores the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual spheres of learning that can be encouraged through dramatic play. Shows strategies used by children in dealing with materials, role enactment, and role conflict in a series of filmed episodes at Queens College Early Childhood Center in New York. Deals with the role of the teacher in evaluating the child's level of conceptualization as manipulative, functional, or integrative.