1,047
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Agentive and communitarian play in early childhood

, &
Pages 1920-1933 | Received 15 Jan 2014, Accepted 10 Feb 2014, Published online: 20 Mar 2014

References

  • Bakan, D. (1966). The duality of human existence. Chicago: Rand McNally.
  • Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: Freeman.
  • Berkhout, L., Dolk, M., & Goorhuis-Brouwer, S. (2011). Teachers’ views on psychosocial development in children from 4 to 6 years of age. Educational & Child Psychology, 27, 103–112.
  • Birch, S. H., & Ladd, G. W. (1998). Children's interpersonal behaviors and the teacher-child relationship. Developmental Psychology, 34, 934–946. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.34.5.934
  • Blanchet-Cohen, N. (2008). Taking a stance: Child agency across the dimension of early adolescents’ environmental involvement. Environmental Education Research, 14, 257–272. doi: 10.1080/13504620802156496
  • Bodrova, E., & Leong, D. (2003). The importance of being playful. Educational Leadership, 60, 50–53.
  • Bowlby, J. (1977). The making and breaking of affectional bonds. I. Aetiology and psychopathy in the light of attachment theory. An expanded version of the Fiftieth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 10 November 1976. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 130, 201–210. doi: 10.1192/bjp.130.3.201
  • Bruner, J. (1987). Actual minds, possible worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Bruner, J. (1990). Acts of meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Cameron, C. A., Pinto, G., Accorti Gamannossi, B., Hancock, R., & Tapanya, S. (2011). Domestic play collaborations in diverse family contexts. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 36, 78–85.
  • Dmytro, D., Kubiliene, N., & Cameron, C.A. (October 2013). Agentive and communitarian transaction in a thriving child's transition to school. In symposium at Association for Moral Education at annual meeting, Montreal PQ, Canada.
  • Edmiston, B. (2010). Playing with children, answering with our lives: A Bakhtinian approach to coauthoring ethical identities in early childhood. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58, 197–211. doi: 10.1080/00071000903522484
  • Elkind, D. (2007). The power of play: How spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
  • Ely, R., Melzi, G., Hadge, L., & McCabe, A. (1998). Being brave, being nice: Themes of agency and communion in children's narratives. Journal of Personality, 66, 257–284. doi: 10.1111/1467-6494.00012
  • Englund, M. M., Kuo, S., Puig, J., & Collins, W. A. (2001). Early roots of adult competence: The significance of close relationships from infancy to early adulthood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35, 490–496. doi: 10.1177/0165025411422994
  • Erikson, E. H. (1968). Identity: Youth and crisis. New York: Norton.
  • Fleer, M. (2011). Kindergartens in cognitive times: Imagination as a dialectical relation between play and learning. International Journal of Early Childhood, 43, 245–259. doi: 10.1007/s13158-011-0044-8
  • Frimer, J. A., Walker, L. J., Dunlop, W. L., Lee, B. H., & Riches, A. (2011). The integration of agency and communion in moral personality: Evidence of enlightened self-interest. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 149–163. doi: 10.1037/a0023780
  • Frimer, J. A., Walker, L. J., Lee, B. H., Riches, A., & Dunlop, W. L. (2012). Hierarchical integration of agency and communion: A study of influential moral figures. Journal of Personality, 80, 1117–1145. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00764.x
  • Ghaed, S. G., & Gallo, L. C. (2006). Distinctions among agency, communion, and unmitigated agency and communion according to the interpersonal circumplex, five-factor model, and social-emotional correlates. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86, 77–88. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8601_09
  • Gillen, J., & Cameron, C. A. (Eds.). (2010). International perspectives on early childhood research: A day in the life. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Girard, L., Girolametto, L., Weitzman, E., & Greenberg, J. (2011). Training early childhood educators to promote peer interactions: Effects on children's aggressive and prosocial behaviors. Early Education and Development, 22, 305–323. doi: 10.1080/10409281003668060
  • Hamre, B. K., & Pianta, R. C. (2001). Early teacher–child relationships and the trajectory of children's school outcomes through eighth grade. Child Development, 72, 625–638. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00301
  • Hamre, B. K., & Pianta, R. C. (2005). Can instructional and emotional support in the first-grade classroom make a difference for children at risk of school failure? Child Development, 76, 949–967. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00889.x
  • Han, H. S. (2013). Supporting early childhood teachers to promote children's social competence: Components for best professional development practices. Early Childhood Education Journal, 41, 197–210. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10643-013-0584-7
  • Helgeson, V. S. (1994). Relation of agency and communion to well-being: Evidence and potential explanations. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 412–428. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.116.3.412
  • Helgeson, V. S., & Fritz, H. L. (2000). The implications of unmitigated agency and unmitigated communion for domains of problem behavior. Journal of Personality, 68, 1031–1057. doi: 10.1111/1467-6494.00125
  • Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Berk, L. E., & Singer, D. G. (2009). A mandate for playful learning in preschool: Presenting the evidence. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Hogan, R. (1982). A socioanalytic theory of personality. In M. M. Page (Ed.), Nebraska symposium on motivation: Vol. 29. Personality: Current theory and research (pp. 55–89). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Howes, C., & Hamilton, C. E. (1994). Children's relationships with peers: Differential associations with aspects of the teacher-child relationship. Child Development, 65, 253–263. doi: 10.2307/1131379
  • Huf, C. (2013). Children's agency during transition to formal schooling. Ethnography and Education, 8, 61–76. doi: 10.1080/17457823.2013.766434
  • Jadue-Roa, D. S., & Whitebread, D. (2012). Young children's experiences through transition between kindergarten and first grade in Chile and its relation with their developing learning agency. Educational & Child Psychology, 29, 32–46.
  • Kuiper, N. A., & Borowicz-Sibenik, M. (2005). A good sense of humor doesn't always help: Agency and communion as moderators of psychological well-being. Personality & Individual Differences, 38, 365–377. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.04.015
  • Leonard, R. (1997). Theorizing the relationship between agency and communion. Theory & Psychology, 7, 823–835. doi: 10.1177/0959354397076005
  • Leong, D. J., & Bodrova, E. (2012). Assessing and scaffolding make-believe play. Young Children, 67, 28–34.
  • Lillemyr, O., Søbstad, F., Marder, K., & Flowerday, T. (2011). A multicultural perspective on play and learning in primary school. International Journal of Early Childhood, 43, 43–65. doi: 10.1007/s13158-010-0021-7
  • Mansfield, E. D., & McAdams, D. P. (1996). Generativity and themes of agency and communion in adult autobiography. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 721–731. doi: 10.1177/0146167296227006
  • Mashburn, A. J., Pianta, R. C., Hamre, B. K., Downer, J. T., Barbarin, O. A., Bryant, D., … & Howes, C. (2008). Measures of classroom quality in prekindergarten and children's development of academic, language, and social skills. Child Development, 79, 732–749. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01154.x
  • Mawson, B. (2011). Children's leadership strategies in early childhood. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 25, 327–338. doi: 10.1080/02568543.2011.605207
  • McAdams, D. P. (1993). The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • McAdams, D. P. (2001). Coding autobiographical episodes for themes of agency and communion. Unpublished manuscript, Foley Center for the Study of Lives. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University.
  • McIntyre, L. L., Blacher, J., & Baker, B. L. (2006). The transition to school: Adaptation in young children with and without intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50, 349–361. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00783.x
  • Myck-Wayne, J. (2010). In defense of play: Beginning the dialog about the power of play. Young Exceptional Children, 13, 14–23. doi: 10.1177/1096250610376616
  • Pelligrini, A. D. (2009). The role of play in human development. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Sameroff, A. J. (2010). A unified theory of development: A dialectic integration of nature and nurture. Child Development, 81, 6–22. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01378.x
  • Saragovi, C., Koestner, R., Di Dio, L., & Aubé, J. (1997). Agency, communion, and well-being: Extending Helgeson's (1994) model. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 73, 593–609. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.3.593
  • Scarlett, W. G., Naudeau, S., Salonius-Pasternak, D., & Ponte, I. (2005). Children's play. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Schultz, B. L., Richardson, R., Barber, C. R., & Wilcox, D. (2011). A preschool pilot study of connecting with others: Lessons for teaching social and emotional competence. Early Childhood Education Journal, 39, 143–148. doi: 10.1007/s10643-011-0450-4
  • Singer, D., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (Eds.). (2006). Play=learning: How play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and social-emotional growth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Theron, L., Cameron, C. A., Didkowsky, N., Lau, C., Liebenberg, L., & Ungar, M. (2011). A ‘day in the life’ of four resilient youths: Cultural roots of resilience. Youth and Society, 43, 799–881. doi: 10.1177/0044118X11402853
  • Trapnell, P. D., & Paulhus, D. L. (2012). Agentic and communal values: Their scope and measurement. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 39–52. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2011.627968
  • Vygotsky, L. (1978). The role of play in development. In M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S. Scribner & E. Souberman (Eds.), Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes (pp. 92–104). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Wildenger, L. K., & McIntyre, L. L. (2012). Investigating the relation between kindergarten preparation and child socio-behavioral school outcomes. Early Childhood Education Journal, 20, 169–176. doi: 10.1007/s10643-012-0509-x
  • Wojciszke, B., Abele, A. E., & Baryla, W. (2009). Two dimensions of interpersonal attitudes: Liking depends on communion, respect depends on agency. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 973–990. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.595

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.