THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY-BASED LEARNING IN EARLY YEARS As parents seeking the best school for your young children, you may find that today’s Early Years classrooms look very different from the ones you once knew. Gone are the da...
This chapter explores play-based learning, drawing upon my own experiences and on research within the early childhood sector, specifically on how play can impact on the social, emotional and physical and cognitive development of children from birth to eight years. My own childhood was filled with...
What can be more powerful than when education, curiosity, and play come together to support teaching and learning? Play-based learning in Early Years classrooms is a critical form of how children learn and make sense of...
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Play based learning is widely understood to be the most beneficial form of learning during early childhood. It can stimulate cognitive, social, physical and emotional development. Differences in play styles and preferences include: Risk tolerance. ...
There are many benefits of play-based learning for children, but also some challenges. Educators and parents need to know exactly why play is good for learning, and that it’s more than ‘having fun’. To learn more about play in early childhood, read my full outline of the17 different ...
Such a trend was confirmed from research conducted with 200 Western Australian early years educators (mainly teachers) to discuss their most concerning early childhood pedagogical issue. This paper describes the educators' most significant concern, which was the erosion of play-based learning and the ...
Further empirical work would benefit our understanding of the impact of professional learning, and differing employment routes into the early years education-care sector, on the provision for, and outcomes of, children’s playful engagement in the outdoors. While the value of large-scale quan...
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In this chapter, the authors discuss the two principles that emerged from this research project, and that can be applied for play-based learning in early childhood environmental education. These principles are (1) Valuing different play-types according t