Who is holding the longer stick? The power of adult presence on children’s play

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Mine Göl-Güven After graduating from Istanbul University, Faculty of Art and Science, Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling in 1997, Göl-Güven earned her master’s degree from the Department of Child and Family Studies at Syracuse University and completed her Ph.D. at Penn State University, College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her dissertation was entitled, ‘Fire bee versus ABC: Cultural varieties in mother-child play interactions in a playgroup and at home’. She holds a faculty position at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul where she has served as assistant professor since 2006. She has been working with teachers to promote social-emotional skills in children at school settings. Dr Göl-Güven has been awarded a grant by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) for a year to pursue her research on children’s play. She has conducted an ethnographic study in which she examines the ways to support social and emotional skills in children through classroom play culture.

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Mine Gol-Guven http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1675-4478

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The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research. This study was supported by a grant from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) 2219 Post Doctorate Research Scholarship [1059B191400531], however, the opinions and positions are those of the authors, and no endorsement by TUBITAK should be inferred.