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Direct linkLynsey Anne Burke; Duncan Mercieca – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: This paper offers a reflection of a research process aimed at listening to young children's voices in their everyday school life through a play-based context in a Scottish school. Throughout the research process, the complexity of conducting this research was kept in mind as listening to children's voices presents methodological and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Play, Personal Autonomy
Roger Mantie – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2024
Research suggests that when we treat our non-obligatory activities playfully, we are more likely to engage with them and derive meaningfulness from them. Play is of interest to the field of music education on at least two counts: the perceived relationship between play and music, and the perceived educational aspects of play related to human…
Descriptors: Music Education, Play, Music Activities, Barriers
Jane Caughey; Karen McLean; Susan Edwards – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
This research investigates how children located in separate homes use the psychological function of imagination to engage in sociodramatic play using networked digital technologies. Specifically, it examines how 7- to 8-year-old children create imaginary play situations in the same "Minecraft: Education Edition" digitally-mediated…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Imagination, Dramatic Play, Electronic Learning
Download full textFarahiyah Wan Yunus; Sakinah Idris; Siti Noraini Asmuri; Bess Fowler; Muhammad Hibatullah Romli – American Journal of Play, 2024
The authors contend that children benefit from play as a form of intervention and as a means of fostering their cognitive, social, and physical growth. They review several standardized instruments developed over the last fifty years to assess this benefit of play on child development. They identify twenty-one such play measures, the majority of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Play, Test Reliability, Standardized Tests
Helge Wasmuth – Global Education Review, 2024
Access to Friedrich Fröbel's essential writings continues to be a challenge for non-German-speaking scholarship. Many essential writings have never been translated, and existing translations are outdated. This article discusses the challenges of translating Fröbel by translating and analyzing one of the essential letters during the establishment…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Letters (Correspondence), Educational History, Educational Theories
Pamela Burnard; Nathalie Ann Köbli – Music Education Research, 2024
Much of historical and contemporary music education research is influenced by a Cartesian ontology of opposition. This reinforces the classic function of music and music education: the exercise of possession, ownership and control. To confront these ideas, our article reimagines music education research through posthumanism and new materialism. In…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Research, Music Teachers, Learning Processes
Büsra Zelcek; Sima Pouya – Support for Learning, 2024
Sandplay therapy helps the person develop social skills and acts as a therapy method where they can reflect and repair their inner world. This study aims to test the feasibility of sandplay therapy method in an open area for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and investigate its effect on the development of social skills. In addition,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Preadolescents, Children, Intervention
Mia Yue Chen; Elizabeth Rouse; Anne-Marie Morrissey – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Play, which is both a context and process for children's learning, has become a pivotal pedagogical component in global early childhood education. The uptake of intentional teaching has contributed to the shift in understandings of play, from viewing play as a means of recreation and entertainment to a more socio-cultural perspective that…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Intention, Decision Making
Taylor, T. L. – American Journal of Play, 2022
The author argues that ethnography is a kindred of play. Based on her research of play in digital gaming environments, she draws several parallels between the practices of ethnography and the practices of play. She explores the complexities of play in games and expands our understanding of the work of ethnography as play.
Descriptors: Ethnography, Play, Research, Games
Jennifer 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
