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Chang-Kredl, Sandra; Mamlok, Dan; Venkatesh, Vivek – American Journal of Play, 2023
The authors explore children's symbolic play that involves themes of fear and darkness, and they investigate the nature of children's binary oppositions, particularly between self and other. Their account is based on a year-long qualitative study they conducted with seven children, four to ten years of age. They observed the children engage with…
Descriptors: Play, Fear, Young Children, Preadolescents
Marilyn Fleer – American Journal of Play, 2023
The author draws on Lev S. Vygotsky's conception of play and Gunilla Lindqvist's methodology concerning the aesthetics of play to discuss play practice in early childhood classrooms. Based on the study of an educational experiment at a primary school, she discusses how children in a school setting simultaneously engage in developed forms of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Young Children, Imagination
O'Neill, Daniela K.; Holmes, Paige E. – American Journal of Play, 2022
The authors conduct a broad, cross-cultural review of the literature in fields such as psychology, education, speech-language pathology, early intervention, and library science concerned with board games and learning in young children. They include experimenter-developed and commercial board games and children's learning in mathematics, science,…
Descriptors: Games, Young Children, Mathematics, Sciences
Storli, Rune; Tobiassen, May Liss; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen – American Journal of Play, 2022
The authors consider play to be critical and intrinsic to healthy human life and development, and they argue that children's right to play should be supported by the environment in which they live. Their study seeks to understand what children do when they appear not to play during free play periods at early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children
Lundtofte, Thomas Enemark – American Journal of Play, 2020
The author reviews the research and scholarly literature about young children's play with tablet computers and identifies four major topics relevant to the subject--digital literacy, learning, transgressive and creative play, and parental involvement. He finds that young children's tablet computer play relies not only on technology, but also on…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Handheld Devices, Technological Literacy