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Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2025
Large-scale research such as the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) study (Sylva et al., 2004) confirms the significance of educator and teacher practices for improvement in learning outcomes for young children. The quality of instruction children receive in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings and programs can…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care
Shaddai Tembo; Simon Bateson – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
In this article, we consider the academic literature regarding how racial discrimination is prefigured in societal norms and habits in early learning and childcare in Scotland and England. Specifically, we outline what we see as a salient opportunity to strengthen the existing knowledge base, namely how race and racism are understood in young…
Descriptors: Play, Racial Discrimination, Social Behavior, Early Childhood Education
Sam von Gillern; Brady Nash – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
This scoping review examines scholarship on video games in prominent literacy journals between years 2000 and 2020. 32 articles met inclusion criteria for the study, including 15 articles on entertainment games and 17 articles on serious/educational games. Included articles were categorized by various attributes, including year of publication,…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Literacy Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Jaysveree Louw; Heidi Claassens – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This theoretical article examines the crucial role of play-based learning (PBL) in enhancing the mathematical skills of children in the Early Childhood Phase, referred to as Foundation Phase (Grade R-3) learners, within a South African context. The article argues that the traditional approach to teaching early childhood mathematics, where teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Skills, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
Jørgensen, Helle Hovgaard; Schrøder, Vibeke; Skovbjerg, Helle Marie – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Teacher education and social education are increasingly challenged to adopt student-centred approaches by focusing on learning spaces and materiality. This study reports on an integrative literature review to determine how space and materiality are approached in the research literature on playful learning in higher education. A thematic analysis…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Play, Learning Activities, Space Utilization
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Barnes, Erica M.; Hwang, HyeJin – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Early childhood teachers' talk is a key ingredient in children's early language and literacy development, but there has been little systematic synthesis of observational studies that examine relationships between teacher talk and child oral language. In this systematic review of 54 studies, we investigate and synthesize the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Language Teachers, Language Usage, Child Language
Cremin, Teresa; Chappell, Kerry – Research Papers in Education, 2021
This paper is a critical systematic literature review of empirical work on creative pedagogies from 1990 to 2018. It responds to the increased international attention being afforded creativity and creative pedagogies in research, policy and practice and examines the evidence regarding creative pedagogical practices and the potential impact of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Concept Formation
Wohlwend, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2023
A contributing factor to the loss of play in many early childhood classrooms is a sharp separation between literacy learning as serious, even urgent, academic work and play as optional, socially-beneficial-at-best, fun. To recenter play in the academic curriculum, early childhood educators must not only demonstrate how play benefits the existing…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Literacy Education
Sophia Mansori; Jackie Zweig; Anne Huntington; Tracy McMahon – Education Development Center, Inc., 2024
Bringing learning through play pedagogies to schools and children requires major investments in teacher professional development (TPD) that builds teachers' understanding of the value of learning through play, enables them to build and practice strategies and skills to support learning through play in the classroom, and supports their ongoing…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Play, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
Rachael Byrne; Regina Murphy; Francis Ward; Una McCabe – British Journal of Music Education, 2024
Playful practices have been linked to increased motivation, engagement, learning and skill development. However, limited research has explored what playful music learning might look like for primary schools, and how teachers might incorporate a range of playful music practices within their classrooms. Our conceptual model for playful music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Play, Skill Development, Learner Engagement
Jennifer R. Ledford; James E. Pustejovsky – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2023
Stay-play-talk (SPT) is a peer-mediated intervention that involves training peer implementers to stay in proximity to, play with, and talk to a focal child who has disabilities or lower social competence. This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the contexts in which SPT interventions have been conducted, the methodological adequacy…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Intervention, Play
O'Neill, Daniela K.; Holmes, Paige E. – American Journal of Play, 2022
The authors conduct a broad, cross-cultural review of the literature in fields such as psychology, education, speech-language pathology, early intervention, and library science concerned with board games and learning in young children. They include experimenter-developed and commercial board games and children's learning in mathematics, science,…
Descriptors: Games, Young Children, Mathematics, Sciences
Leather, Mark; Harper, Nevin; Obee, Patricia – Journal of Experiential Education, 2021
Background: Teaching experientially in postsecondary education has challenges; institutional constraints, neoliberal management, and a colonized learning environment. We discuss playing as a form of experiential education. Purpose: We challenge conventional teaching and offer an alternative to enrich and broaden conventional pedagogies. We argue…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Creativity
Simeone, Paul J.; Schlosser, Ralf W.; Frampton, Sarah E.; Shane, Howard C.; Wendt, Oliver – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Miniature linguistic systems (also known as matrix training) is a method of organizing learning targets to achieve generative learning or recombinative generalization. This systematic review is aimed at determining whether matrix training is effective for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in terms of improving recombinative…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Training, Program Effectiveness, Generalization
Curiel, Emily S. L.; Axe, Judah B.; Sainato, Diane M.; Goldstein, Howard – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Matrix training is an intervention that systematically programs for the occurrence of generative outcomes, mostly in the area of language. A literature search identified studies that evaluated matrix training with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Based on 12 reviewed studies, we asked questions regarding participant…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Teaching Methods