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1 wrz 2018 · At a time when early childhood programs are pressured to add more didactic components and less playful learning, pediatricians can play an important role in emphasizing the role of a balanced curriculum that includes the importance of playful learning for the promotion of healthy child development.
Playful learning describes a learning context in which children learn content while playing freely (free play or self-directed play), with teacher guidance (guided play), or in a structured game.
24 maj 2022 · Four themes emerge in how play and learning have been empirically studied, and thus how play and learning have been handled as concepts in research: (1) play as part of practice for learning, (2) the playing learning child as an individual, (3) play and learning integrated in education and (4) play-responsive teaching.
10 lis 2022 · Three overarching themes were found: (1) the aspects of play quality that are related to nature-based environments, (2) the aspects of nature-based environments that support play, and (3) the aspects of teacher-child interactions that contribute to nature play quality.
In this white paper, we review this evidence in relation to specific types of play, and begin to set out an agenda for play research going forward.
6 cze 2017 · In this article, the authors problematize the dichotomization of play and learning that often shapes the agenda of early childhood education research and practice.
14 paź 2018 · For young children’s free play to be valued requires early childhood educators to be advanced thinkers who can draw on the store of epistemic, academic, technical and practical knowledge that informs the field of early childhood education and care.
