Thesis (MSD (Play Therapy))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. S.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Juliann Woods, Florida State University, College of Communication, Dept. of Communication Disorders. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 19, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 41 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Typescript.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007. / Title from title page screen, viewed on Apr. 8, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Gregory S. Braswell (chair), Laura E. Berk, Renee M. Tobin, Connor M Walters. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-77) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-124). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Göteborg. / Added t.p. with abstract and errata slip (3 p.) inserted. "(Section 1.3 in cooperation with Peter de Chateau, M.D.)." Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-217).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

This thesis connects with and extends inter alia the recent but as yet peripheral move within the sociology of childhood to open up children's agency to empirical analysis. Drawing heuristically upon actor-network theory and thought of this kind its aim is to expose the networks of heterogeneous associations upon which children's agency and power depends. Focusing upon children's every day play activities; the analytical lens is extended to consider the role of nonhumans that are embedded in children's mundane play interactions within their local neighbourhood and within their school playground. In doing so, this thesis argues that nonhumans are crucial participants in social interaction that are implicated in and pivotal to the heterogeneous networks of associations that children, as heterogeneous engineers, actively create to achieve their particular goals and desires. As a corollary to this, an analytical incorporation of nonhumans has drawn attention to the wider role that nonhumans play in the life worlds of children. In respect to this, the argument this thesis advances is that nonhumans,in their diverse forms, are functionally important in holding children's social relations in place. Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork with children, this thesis argues that children's agency, power and social relations, take their form and are an outcome of the heterogeneous associations that take place between humans and `things'.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-108). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1979.