(2009). Play, cognition and self regulation: What exactly are children learning when they learn through play? Educational & Child Psychology, 26(2), 40-52.Whitebread, D., Coltmann, P., Jameson, H., & Lander, R. (2009). Play, cognition, and self- regulation: What exactly are ...
This paper explores the particular aspects of learning which might be supported through playful activity and reviews research and theory which link children's play, and particularly pretence or symbolic play, to the development of metacognitive and self-regulatory skills.Three studies are reported, one...
Second, their knowledge and understanding of play and how it can be carried out. Children are integral to society, so they experience the environment and social issues, learn the standard codes, and share meanings. Hence, children's play culture is essential to society’s general culture (...
This article focuses on the possibilities of teaching in a play-based curriculum, which has become an issue of international relevance. As a domain of study, the Developmental Education approach was taken in the early grades of Dutch primary schools (grades 1–4, ages 4–8). The article desc...
Children often learn about the world through exploratory play. Research shows that adults can either facilitate or impede children’s learning through exploratory play, depending on the manner in which they get involved: For example, directly instructing children what to do when facing a novel artifa...
Finally, here we probed children’s ability to reason back a single step in a causal chain: from the sound objects made when shaken in a box to the objects making the sound. But as lay adults, we can reason backward through multiple steps in a causal chain to events increasingly remote ...
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139 Creating environments where children can learn through play is not a simple thing to do consistently and well. Children must have time to play in order to learn through play. The role of the adult is critical. In order for children to become skilled at play, they need uninterrupted ...
and relational dimensions of her educational activity, thus, shaping three different intervention levels towards children’s free play. This positioning is beneficial to children’s development given its active attempt to promote their intrinsic motivation and will to autonomously discover and learn. ...
recognise children’s agency and use play as a pedagogical approach to afford and support children’s agency. In the Vietnamese context, play is applied in the form of games as a means to learn foreign languages in the context of voluntary English learning for pre-schoolers. It is argued ...