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Download full textElena Yudina – American Journal of Play, 2023
The author contends that, although most early childhood educators agree about the value of play for child development, preschools and kindergartens often do not reflect this belief, and she discusses this anomaly in the adult notion of play and how it manifests in classroom practices. She argues that it produces schoolroom practices in which…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods
King, Pete – American Journal of Play, 2023
The author discusses the process of play in terms of six elements in the play cycle first introduced by Sturrock and Else in 1998 and revised by King and Newstead in 2020--precue, play cue, play return, play frame, flow, and annihilation--and their relation to Winnicott's concepts of "potential space" or the "third area," which…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Cues, Theories
Direct linkJennifer Nikolai – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
This article reflects on observations as a dance pedagogue, adapting Gilbert's BrainDance to a range of learning and teaching opportunities in intergenerational classroom contexts. Initially applied in an early childhood education context, BrainDance provided a point of departure into conversations and observations with teachers on how the…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Undergraduate Students, Elementary School Students, Adult Students
Melissa Rodriguez-Meehan; Tiffany Chobrda; Van-Jay Haughton; Madison Franz – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Offering choice and opportunities for play in the classroom are ways to increase children's motivation by appealing to their needs for autonomy and competence. Research shows that implementing choice-based learning in the classroom is beneficial for children and provides multiple opportunities for collaboration and discussion. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Play, Program Effectiveness, Self Determination
Abby L. Taylor; Mary Louise Hemmeter; Jennifer Ledford; Kristen L. Granger; Anna C. Hoepfner; Sarah J. Basler – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2025
Promoting positive relationships with peers is an important support for children who exhibit social withdrawal. Children who show extreme shyness or are identified as self-isolating are at risk for developing internalizing conditions, which can also lead to poor social and academic outcomes. These children may benefit from targeted support to…
Descriptors: Shyness, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Peer Relationship
Ellis S. Cain; Rachel A. Ryskin; Chen Yu – Cognitive Science, 2025
According to the cross-situational learning account, infants aggregate statistical information from multiple parent naming events to resolve ambiguous word-referent mappings within individual naming events. While previous experimental studies have shown that infant and adult learners can build correct mappings based on statistical regularities…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Infants, Inferences
Kimberly Squires; Tricia van Rhijn; Debra Harwood; Jess Haines; Kim Barton – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Access to playful experiences outdoors is critical for children's learning and development. With a significant amount of young children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings (OECD, OECD Publishing, 2023), these programs have an important role in furthering children's equitable access to outdoor play. As part of a larger…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Processes, Child Development
Sophie Carruthers; Tony Charman; Kathy Leadbitter; Ceri Ellis; Lauren Taylor; Heather Moore; Carol Taylor; Kirsty James; Matea Balabanovska; Sophie Langhorne; Catherine Aldred; Vicky Slonims; Vicki Grahame; Patricia Howlin; Helen McConachie; Jeremy Parr; Richard Emsley; Ann Le Couteur; Jonathan Green; Andrew Pickles; PACT-G Trial Group – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
We investigated autistic children's generalisation of social communication over time across three settings during a play-based assessment with different adults and explore the potential moderating effects on generalisation of age, nonverbal IQ and level of restricted and repetitive behaviours. The social communication abilities of 248 autistic…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
Esinam Ami Avornyo; Sara Baker – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study adopted a qualitative approach and analysed interviews from seven parents with children enrolled in nursery and kindergarten in Ghana. The interviews examined parents' descriptions of play and learning and how they perceive the value of play in children's learning. The findings revealed that the parents generally have doubts about the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Parents, Parent Attitudes
Lerato B. Ndabezitha; Sarah Gravett – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Research has shown the benefits of play for children's learning and development. Play can also be harnessed for pursuing pre-determined learning goals related to school curricula through "guided" play. Aim: The research inquired into the implementation of a pre-service teacher education course on play as pedagogy to evaluate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Childhood Education, 2024
Play Africa, with over 40 innovative exhibits and/or programs since inception, was created as a means to address the inequalities and lack of high-quality experiences that affect the early development of children from birth to age 10 in South Africa. The results from the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) paint a dire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Equal Education, Children
Gavin R. McCormack; Calli Naish; Jennie Petersen; Patricia K. Doyle-Baker – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Play encourages physical and social activity creativity, and risk-taking. However, unstructured and risky play is on the decline. Our qualitative study explored the perspectives of Play Ambassadors, who facilitated a community-based loose parts play intervention ('play hubs') in Calgary parks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using semi-structured…
Descriptors: Community, Parks, Intervention, COVID-19
Dineke Bent; René Schalk; Tine Van Regenmortel; Martine Noordegraaf – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Background: The target group of this study concerns young people with a mild intellectual disability. The central research question is: What evidence can be found in the literature for common and specific factors for a play therapy intervention for young people with a mild intellectual disability struggling with aggression regulation. Method: The…
Descriptors: Youth, Intellectual Disability, Mild Disabilities, Play Therapy
Alison Harmer – Music Education Research, 2024
Inspired by Graham Harman's philosophy of human access, and within the 'flattening ontology' of Object Oriented Ontology, Ring o' Roses is speculated about as a finite object with ontological independence from humans, repertoire, song, utility, and cultural context. Ring o' Roses playfully dances us through an introduction to OOO, and on to the…
Descriptors: Play, Music, Music Education, Educational Philosophy
Marie Therese Farrugia – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study is based on qualitative research carried out with four 4-year-old children attending a kindergarten in Malta. The aim of the study was to first observe children playing without adult intervention to see if, and how, they would engage with mathematical ideas as they played. In the second part of the study, I interacted with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play
