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Children's Play in Center Tirne: Coming to New Understandings of Life, Learning, and Teaching in the Classroom
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Play allows children to make creative discoveries. This is a result of the fact that creation comes from tinkering and the absence of fear of failure, rather than from minds trained to follow what is already known. Suggestions for building a curriculum based on serious play are offered. (LB)
Explores the importance of play in the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of young children. Functional, constructive, and dramatic play, and games with rules, are examined. Suggests that play is a powerful curricular tool for the kindergarten and primary classroom. Investigates ways to integrate play into the curriculum and to help parents appreciate its valuable role. (AA)
Discusses the nature and importance of problem-solving activities for young children. Such activities focus on the process of cognitive development rather than its results. Problem-solving opportunities during early childhood encourage the child to create new mental relationships by interacting with the environment. Problem-solving activities avoid the dilemma of readiness assessment by allowing children to respond to materials at their own level and to ask their own questions. Characteristics of good problems include various levels of complexity and a requirement of concrete actions. Teachers can organize specific problem-solving activities around the type of response they encourage: movement, discussion, skills, and strategy. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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