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Download full textLisa Raymond-Tolan – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2025
Engaging in play constitutes a fundamental theoretical concept and skill set emphasized in occupational therapy (OT) education. According to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), play is a key occupation and a core context for development and learning. However, there is a paucity of evidence about if and how entry-level OT programs…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Occupational Therapy, Play, College Faculty
Direct linkAmber Beisly; Anne Moffitt – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
When children engage in play, they develop essential skills like creativity, flexibility, imagination, and problem-solving. Children who engage in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) activities also build similar skills. Both play and STEAM enable children to ask questions, try different solutions, and develop explanations for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Activities, Creative Development, Creativity
Anna Henriksson; Lotta Leden; Marie Fridberg; Susanne Thulin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This article attempts to address the challenge that preschool teachers face, when integrating a specific content area, science, with play. The study builds on the theoretical framework of Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care (PRECEC), in which teaching, and play are understood as a mutual activity. In this mutual activity, teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Young Children
Junqing Zhai; Simone Miranda Blom; Justin Dillon; Shanghao Wu; Xiaomei Yan – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Engagement with nature is crucial for child development and kindergarten educators' pedagogical beliefs about nature play significantly affect children's access to and experiences of nature in kindergarten. This study examines the role of nature play in children's holistic development, engaging 12 Chinese kindergarten educators through in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Merel van Witteloostuijn; Athena Haggiyannes; Elise de Bree; Elma Blom – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: It is widely acknowledged that parental input plays an important role in typical language development. Less is known about the input provided to children with (suspected) developmental language disorder (DLD) or those at risk for DLD. These children may not benefit from parental input in the same way as their typically developing peers,…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Language Acquisition
Natacha Ndabahagamye Jones; Jennifer Keys Adair – Urban Education, 2025
Black girls' schooling experiences and capabilities are understudied. Their brilliance eludes neoliberal early childhood contexts characterized by control, standardization, hyper-individualism, and antiblackness. This article builds on Black Girlhood frameworks and Engaged Pedagogy to center 11 Black girls in three Texas PreK classrooms. In a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Classroom Environment, Peer Relationship
Mei-Ying Liao; Lee-Chen Chen; Po-Ya Huang – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of this study was to explore the use of in-between spaces to create music environments in a preschool setting. The research method was a 1.5-year case study of a preschool in northern Taiwan, focusing on innovative music environment creation in the in-between space. The implementation process was divided into three stages: exploration,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Classroom Environment
Rachel. J. Nesbit; Lily FitzGibbon; Helen. F. Dodd – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Using data from the British Children's Play Survey, we aimed to characterise parents' perception of play in school and to examine to what extent perceptions were accounted for by socio-demographic factors, geographic factors, and parents' attitudes towards risk in play and protection from injury. Participants were 1919 parents (54% female) of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Play, Foreign Countries, Social Influences
Hui Zhao; Ying Huang; Bangdan Liu; Mengjiao Han – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Multilevel scientific creativity of college students has gained increasing scholarly attention. However, the double-edged effects of a playful climate on creativity have often been overlooked, while single-level theoretical frameworks have hindered the understanding of complex scientific creative processes. In this review, the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Science, Science Education
Hanna Palmér; Camilla Björklund – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
There is a growing consensus in research that children's numerical competence starts to develop at a very early age. However, there are few tools for screening the development of early numerical competence and thereby making this development researchable. One obstacle in designing such tools is that verbal utterances cannot be used as the primary…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Education, Numeracy, Screening Tests
Tess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
J. Amos Hatch – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This book aims to broaden the teaching repertoires of pre-service and in-service early childhood teachers so they can better meet the needs of the children they teach. Covering 16 early childhood teaching strategies--ranging from traditional play-based approaches through direct teaching and technology-assisted instruction to postmodern…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Play
Glykeria Fragkiadaki; Eirini-Maria Frangedaki; Iro Zachariadi; Vasilia Christidou – Research in Science Education, 2025
A growing body of empirical studies in the field of early childhood science education suggests play as a dynamic means to engage young children with the natural world and create the conditions for children's learning and development in science. Although our understanding of play in science as an activity deepens, we still do not know much about…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Play, Toys
Lina Zhang; Peijia Lian; Yu Xue; Nianyang Wu – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Although the importance of block play to children's spatial ability has been recognized globally, little is known about children's use of spatial frames of reference during spatial processing. This study investigated the intervention with guided block play to promote children's use of their intrinsic frame of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Amanda E. Gillooly; Deborah M. Riby; Kevin Durkin; Sinéad M. Rhodes – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Although children with Williams syndrome (WS) are strongly socially motivated, many have friendship difficulties. The parents of 21 children with WS and 20 of the children themselves participated in a semi-structured interview about the children's friendships. Parents reported that their child had difficulties sustaining friendships and low levels…
Descriptors: Friendship, Children, Congenital Impairments, Interpersonal Competence
