More Pellegrini

Mr. Pellegrini Last time I posted I was excited about an article I had found from researcher Pellegrini, but I was looking for articles a little more recent than 1993. Well I found another one, from 2002, from this same gentleman, Anthony Pellegrini. Who is this man? A recess expert of some sort. Well this one is entitled A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of Children's Playground Games across the First Year of School: Implications for Social Competence and Adjustment to School and I'm looking forward to reading it. In the meantime, I've googled Mr. Pellegrini. Here's the scoop: He's a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He describes his teaching and research as generally being related to "children's development" with a particular focus in children's play, sex segregation, social dominance, and aggression. I want to take his course EPSY 5142-Seminar in Children's Play. And let the jokes about "child's play" roll. Most helpful, his university page lists his publications and I thereby discovered another source to investigate: The Role of Play in Human Development (2009).