How an educational experiment creates motivating conditions for children to role-play a child-initiated PlayWorld
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21511034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marilyn Fleer (0000-0002-1224-5510, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 364-379 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Review of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-4985 • E-ISSN: 1465-3915 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03054985.2021.1988911 |
| OpenAlex | W3208038899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
Government guidelines are demanding greater educational outcomes and intentional teaching in Australian preschools. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study of how children incorporate concepts into child-initiated play. A cohort of 18 children (aged 3.0–5.8, mean age of 4.8) were digitally observed over seven weeks (153.3 hours' digital video observations). It was found that rather than formalising preschooling to increase cognitive outcomes, the leading activity of the preschool child to play can be preserved when children experience a PlayWorld where curriculum concepts act in service of the children’s play
Cognition · Cohort · Curriculum · Developmental psychology · Early childhood education · Pedagogy · Preschool education · Child Development and Digital Technology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Medicine · Psychology
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A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context
Studying children's motives in mathematical problem-solving during transition from kindergarten to school
Conceptual Play Worlds
The Playing Learning Child
The significance of demands and motives across practices in children's learning and development
Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child
Academic Content, Student Learning, and the Persistence of Preschool Effects
Playing makes it fun' in out-of-school activities
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |