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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
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
Roskos, Kathleen; Christie, James – American Journal of Play, 2011
A growing body of research has focused on the role of play in young children's literacy development and early-literacy learning. In reviewing this research, the authors define the play-literacy nexus as that space where play, language, and emerging literacy behaviors converge and interact. They describe findings about the play-literacy nexus…
Descriptors: Play, Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr. – American Journal of Play, 2009
Friedrich Froebel, the German educator and founder of the Kindergarten Movement, developed a series of play materials including geometric building blocks and pattern activity blocks designed to teach children about forms and relationships found in nature. Froebel's notions about using activity and play in preschool education complement many…
Descriptors: Play, Spiritual Development, Aesthetics, Toys