What is Learning Through Play?
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Play based learning is active learning, which is developmentally correct for every child. |
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Play is the backbone of all children’s learning. |
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Each child’s play experience is unique. |
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Learning should involve long, uninterrupted periods of open-ended play to imagine, dream & create. |
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Learning happens when a child is provided an environment and resources that awaken the imagination to explore. |
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Parents provide shared opportunities to explore and learn together, strengthening the parent-child bond. |
References
Children Learning Through Play
Extract from Putting Children First, the Newsletter of the National Childcare Accreditation Council (NCAC) Issue 14 June 2005 (Pgs 10-11)
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
Kenneth R. Ginsburg, and the Committee on Communications and and the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health
Pediatrics 2007;119;182-191
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2697
Speaking Out for Play-Based Learning
Susan J. Oliver and Edgar Klugman
Child Care Information Exchange January/February 2004
