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Aoife Roche; Clare Carroll; Mary-Pat O'Malley – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
In the Republic of Ireland, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs recommends implementing play-based learning in early education curricula. This research study set out to explore the following research question: What are pre-school teachers' beliefs, understandings and uses of play-based approaches to develop language and literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Angelinah, Selepe Mmakgabo; Shila, Mphahlele Ramashego – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2022
Play is one of the most widely used teaching strategies in Foundation Phase. Grade 3 is the exit grade off the Foundation Phase in the South African context. This paper is an output of a Masters' dissertation that explored the use of play when teaching number sense to Grade 3 learners. The dissertation findings encouraged the researchers to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers, Play
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ElKelish, Walaa Wahid; Ahmed, Rafiuddin – Accounting Education, 2022
This paper investigates the impact of the LEGO® Serious Play simulation technique on accounting students' learning outcomes. Data is from a stratified random sample of undergraduate accounting students at a leading higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) emerging market. This paper uses parametric statistical analysis…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Play, Teaching Methods
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Pompert, B.; van der Meer-Wijnands, S. L.; De Waard, H. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This paper first reviews the roles, concepts and practices within SBBD. The paper continues with two single case studies and a survey on the three main phases used in the Netherlands to aid educational institutes in developing a play-based curriculum. In the first case educational professionals (EPs) recognise that the play-based approach helped…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Play, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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
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Louise Kay; Alison Buxton – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
The global growth of makerspaces, focusing on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) disciplines, supports participatory child-centred learning and fosters essential skills in areas such as creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. We argue that establishing a makerspace pedagogy in schools fosters children's engagement in…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Madondo, Fortunate; Tsikira, Joseph – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
This study demonstrates the richness of traditional children's games as an instructional tool for promoting holistic child development at the early childhood development (ECD) level. The study examines traditional children's games from rural Zimbabwe. Valuable insights were drawn from different dimensions of indigenous knowledge systems, ranging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Games, Folk Culture, Teaching Methods
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Keung, Chrysa Pui Chi; Fung, Chanel Kit Ho – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
In Hong Kong, play-based learning has been highlighted in the latest curriculum guide in 2017. While adopting 'child-centredness' as the core value of kindergarten education can enrich children's play experiences. However, little emphasis has been placed on how young children perceive play-based learning in the classroom. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Learning Experience, Young Children
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Adamson, Gracie Scala; Rouse, Elizabeth; Emmett, Susan – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Recent reforms for the early childhood education and care sector in Australia have led in part to the development of a national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) which presents play based learning as "a context for learning through which children organize and make sense of their social worlds, as they engage actively with people, objects…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Play, Participation, Teaching Methods
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Huist, Andrea E.; McCarthy, John W.; Boster, Jamie B.; Benigno, Joann P. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2020
Young children who cannot use their natural speech to communicate their daily wants, needs, thoughts, and opinions often rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies that frequently use graphic symbols to assemble messages. Early intervention strategies typically focus on visual scene displays (VSDs) to place target messages…
Descriptors: Young Children, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Video Technology, Visual Stimuli
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Peppler, Kylie; Wohlwend, Karen; Thompson, Naomi; Tan, Verily; Thomas, AnnMarie – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2019
While circuitry lessons have traditionally been first introduced in late elementary school, they remain challenging conceptually for undergraduates in physics and engineering courses. Seeking to provide a higher quality and earlier introduction to circuitry learning for young children (ages 3-5), this paper investigates the affordances of…
Descriptors: Electronics, Physics, Preschool Education, Nursery Schools
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Wainwright, Nalda; Goodway, Jackie; John, Amanda; Thomas, Kirsty; Piper, Kate; Williams, Kate; Gardener, David – Education 3-13, 2020
Interest has grown internationally in the concept of physical literacy [Dudley, D. 2015. "A Conceptual Model of Observed Physical Literacy." "The Physical Educator" 72: 236-260; Edwards, L., A. Bryant, R. Keegan, K. Morgan, and A. Jones. 2017. "Definitions, Foundations and Associations of Physical Literacy: A systematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Play
Gao, Jie; Li, Minyi; Xu, Yuwei; Qin, Siyu; Guo, Weicheng; Tian, Zitong; Lok, Jesmine; Zeng, Xinyi – Institute of Education - London, 2021
This interim report presents the ongoing progress of a collaborative project between the Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education (CTEY), UCL Institute of Education and the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University (BNU), which aims to (re)construct school readiness from Chinese children's perspectives. In this report, we first set out…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Partnerships in Education, Pilot Projects, Childrens Attitudes
Keim, Kahlie Meara – Online Submission, 2020
Teachers can play important roles in supporting children's development through play, but require training to better understand this role. Practice-based coaching shows promise in its ability to train teachers in use of evidence-based practice, but has not been used for play support practices. The present study sought to explore using…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Play
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Moedt, Kelly; Holmes, Robyn M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This project explored the effects of purposeful play after shared storybook readings on kindergarten children's reading comprehension, creativity, and language abilities. The participants were 42 (26 boys, 16 girls) culturally diverse kindergarten students attending an urban, public school in the northeastern United States. Some children (13) were…
Descriptors: Play, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Bilingualism
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