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Feb 12, 2024 · The issue included 22 authors, five of whom were women. The theorists named in the articles conceptualized young children’s learning from a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, developmental psychology, medicine, linguistics, speech pathology, child development, and biology.
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Resources / Publications / Young Children / Spring 2021 / Social & Emotional Development: For Our Youngest Learners & Beyond. Annie Moses, Stefanie Powers, Kathy L. Reschke. Perhaps more than ever, mental health and social interactions have been on the minds of many over the past year. A pandemic, ongoing systemic injustices, and a contentious ...
- Playful Learning: A Powerful Teaching Tool
- What Is Playful Learning?
- Why Playful Learning Is Critical
- Learning Through Play: A Play Spectrum
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Despite its efficacy in supporting learning, play in early childhood settings has often suffered a bad reputation. Historical changes in educational philosophy tell a story of play that was excised from early childhood classrooms. The 1990s, for example, brought a dramatic change as free play and center time were replaced with rigid, skills-focused...
Playful learning describes a learning context in which children learn content while playing freely (free play or self-directed play), with teacher guidance (guided play), or in a structured game. By harnessing children’s natural curiosity and their proclivities to experiment, explore, problem solve, and stay engaged in meaningful activities—especia...
Teachers play a crucial role in creating places and spaces where they can introduce playful learning to help all children master not only content but also the skills they will need for future success. The science of learning literature (e.g., Fisher et al. 2013; Weisberg, Hirsh-Pasek, & Golinkoff 2013; Zosh et al. 2018) suggests that playful learni...
As noted previously, play can be thought of as lying on a spectrum that includes free play (or self-directed play), guided play, games, playful instruction, and direct instruction (Bergen 1988; Zosh et al. 2018). For the purposes of this piece, we use a spectrum that includes the first three of these aspects of playful learning, as illustrated in “...
Educators are uniquely positioned to prepare today’s children for achievement today and success tomorrow. Further, the evidence is mounting that playful pedagogies appear to be an accessible, powerful tool that harnesses the pillars of learning. This approach can be used across ages and is effective in learning across domains. By leveraging childre...
Apr 11, 2022 · Although much work is needed to determine how these variables play out during learning and reasoning in children, plasticity could help explain why children change their behavior in accordance with observed patterns of data more quickly than adults (Decker et al., 2015) and why previous experience (and knowledge) often play a reduced role in ...
Sep 1, 2018 · Children need to develop a variety of skill sets to optimize their development and manage toxic stress. Research demonstrates that developmentally appropriate play with parents and peers is a singular opportunity to promote the social-emotional, cognitive, language, and self-regulation skills that build executive function and a prosocial brain. Furthermore, play supports the formation of the ...
Jul 14, 2020 · Chen J-Q, Masur A, McNamee G (2011) Young children’s approaches to learning: a socio-cultural perspective. Early Child Development and Care 181(8): 1137–1152. Crossref
