Recognizing the importance of outdoor play for young children's healthy growth, a project focused on the exploration of the outdoor environment was developed with a group of young children in an early childhood education setting in Portugal. The project aimed to transform educational practices, ...
Recognizing the importance of outdoor play for young children's healthy growth, a project focused on the exploration of the outdoor environment was developed with a group of young children in an early childhood education setting in Portugal. The project aimed to transform educational practices, ...
This paper focuses on the roots of play and playfulness in children's early experience of relationships. The paper seeks to argue that the current debate about the loss of safe outdoor play spaces and the dangers of over-reliance on digital entertainments sometimes neglects the fact that play ...
4. Outdoor play should be highly encouragedKids spend a lot of their time inside classrooms and then back inside homes. Child development through play can be achieved with a good amount of time spent out exploring in nature. Take them out to a park or a playground and join them if you ...
The benefits of physical activity are far-reaching. They support brain development along withbone and cardiovascular health and muscular development. During early childhood, participating in active play provides an opportunity for bo...
A total of N? =?18 children (47 years) from three Dutch primary schools participated. To measure childrens language use during outdoor play, we recorded their utterances for ten minutes while playing in a non-nature-based playground and a nature-based playground. Audio tapes were transcribed ...
Affordances for Risky Play in Preschool: The Importance of Features in the Play Environment The purpose of this article is to qualitatively explore the affordances for risky play in two different preschool outdoor environments, an ordinary prescho... EBH Sandseter - 《Early Childhood Education Journ...
Discusses the importance of play for the development of young children. Defines constructive play and identifies the benefits of play for children. Describes the current play landscape as characterized by increasing "screen time," limited outdoor play time, increased violence exposure, overscheduling, ...
IN AN EARLY CHILDHOOD You can discover more about a person from an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato It’s a happy talent to know how to play. – Ralpho Waldo Emerson Play is the work of the child. – Maria Montessori ...
'The opportunities for free play, which I experienced almost every day of my childhood, are becoming increasingly scarce,’he says. Outdoor play is curtailed by perceptions of risk to do with traffic, as well as parents’increased wish to protect their children from being the victims of crime...