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Nov 11, 2019 · However, much of the research concludes that play is a powerful learning mode and central to children’s learning. Play integrates children’s experiences, knowledge and representations in order to help them create meaning and sense and to understand the world.
In play, children take risks (physical and psychological); schools are places where children should be safe. Play is unpredictable and full of surprises; school has a clear agenda.
Aug 21, 2023 · 21 August 2023. Play is not optional: It is a fundamental right of the child. Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that every child has the right to rest and leisure, including play and recreational activities.
Playful Pedagogy is a way of integrating children’s play experiences with curricular learning, giving pupils the flexibility to find their own solutions to both new and existing problems. It engages children in personally meaningful activities, learning about themselves and others, and encourages autonomy and their independent motivation-to-learn.
Nov 3, 2019 · It describes three models (the Five Characteristics of Learning through Play, the Indicators of Playful Learning, and a Continuum of Play-Based Learning) that help define what learning through play in school involves.
- Ben Mardell, S. Lynneth Solis, Ollie Bray
- 2019
Nov 19, 2019 · Many educationalists and child development specialists make the case that play enhances learning, has a clear role in education, and supports emotional well-being, good mental and physical health, creativity and social competence.
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Play is central to how children learn—the way they form and explore friendships, the way they shape and test hypotheses, and the way they make sense of their world. Much is known about how play supports learning, yet little empirical research has explored what it might mean to put play at the center of formal schooling.
