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Powering the Light to Learn: Empower Playgrounds
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Williams, Amy – Childhood Education, 2020
In many parts of the world, multiple challenges affect children's ability to access and benefit from education. Innovations that provide multiple solutions can be truly transformative. This article describes the impact one company has had for good on rural villages in Ghana. Empower Playgrounds has developed electricity-generating playground…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Playgrounds, Playground Activities
The American Playground Movement
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Frost, Joe L. – Childhood Education, 1978
Discusses four factors central to the American playground movement: backlash reaction to cognitive emphasis in early childhood education, influence of European play environments, increasing awareness of deficiencies in traditional American playgrounds, and accumulation of experience with new types of playgrounds. Cites research related to each of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Enriching the Outdoor Play Experience.
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Henniger, Michael L. – Childhood Education, 1994
Discusses how outdoor play can be as effective as indoor play in facilitating young children's development. Offers advice on selection of toys and materials; organization of play spaces; addition of movable toys and equipment; ways to stimulate imaginative outdoor play; and playground safety. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Child Development, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Outdoor Activities
Chasing Friendship: Acceptance, Rejection, and Recess Play-- First-Grade Children Frequently Blurred the Line between Acceptance and Rejection while They Worked through Peer Relationships within the Complex Social Web of Playground Friendships
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Wohlwend, Karen E. – Childhood Education, 2004
In this article, inclusion and exclusion are interpreted not as functions of individual developmental deficit but rather as socially constructed phenomena within the peer group, highlighting the need for teachers to intervene with the entire class rather than focusing on perceived social skills deficits of particular children. The three sections…
Descriptors: Social Development, Friendship, Playgrounds, Peer Groups
Children of Athens at Play.
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Wortham, Sue C. – Childhood Education, 1983
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Playgrounds, Urban Environment
Children in the Junkyard.
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Haas, Malka – Childhood Education, 1996
Examines the role of playgrounds that use discarded items or "junk" as an integral part of kindergarten classes in an Israeli kibbutz. Suggests that play in the junkyard, by including the whole person--muscles and senses, emotion and intellect, individual growth and social interaction--can offer the experiential foundations on which…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Developmental Tasks
Creative Learning Environments for the Middle School.
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Jones, Robert S.; McEwin, C. Kenneth – Childhood Education, 1980
Advocates planning environments that respond to the behavioral needs and learning styles of children in the early adolescent stage in order to make easier their transition from primary to middle school. (CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Style, Environmental Influences, Junior High Schools
Infant/Toddler Development and Play: Designing Creative Play Environments.
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Wortham, Sue C.; Wortham, Marshal R. – Childhood Education, 1989
Discusses the importance of the outdoor play area for infant and toddler cognitive, physical and social development. Also discusses design, landscape and arrangement considerations for the play area. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Creating Play Environments for Children with Special Needs.
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Winter, Susan M.; And Others – Childhood Education, 1994
Examines the implications of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the role of developmentally appropriate practice when insuring the safe inclusion of children with disabilities in play environments. Discusses four principles that should guide the creation of safe, inclusive play environments: safety; developmentally appropriate practice;…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education