Theoretical Approach to Role and Purpose of Play
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THEORETICAL APPROACH
TO
ROLE AND PURPOSE OF PLAY
CASE STUDY...
FLEXIBILITY AND THINKING
NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
PLAY AND IDENTITY
January 2008
Role and Purpose of Play
What is Play?
Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social and emotional well-being of children and young people. Through play, children can communicate thoughts, needs, satisfactions, problems and feelings. An adult can learn a lot about a child’s feelings of joy, hope, anger and fear by watching, listening to and talking with a child at play.
Play brings together the ideas, feelings, relationships and physical life of the child. It helps children to use what they know and to understand things about the world and people they meet. Play is central to learning and it is part of a whole network for learning.
Play is crucial for the development of good self-esteem and for becoming a rounded personality and it co- ordinates a child’s learning and makes it whole.
Flexibility and Thinking
This is a concept which is based on a child’s thinking, intellectual development and ideas as well as using play as a way in which a child’s learning becomes whole.
The use of flexibility and thinking as one of the tools for role and purpose of play was developed by Jean Piaget. He said that children are actively involved in their own learning, children learn by accommodation, assimilation and they use the same skill presented in different ways to support this. Jean Piaget also laid emphasis on children passing through four distinct stages. These stages are: sensory motor; pre-operational; concrete operational and formal operational.
Neurological development
This is the development of the brain through play. Neurological development is influenced by play and its foundations enable problem solving, language and creativity learning through play. Also, Neurological development...
THEORETICAL APPROACH
TO
ROLE AND PURPOSE OF PLAY
CASE STUDY...
FLEXIBILITY AND THINKING
NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
PLAY AND IDENTITY
January 2008
Role and Purpose of Play
What is Play?
Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social and emotional well-being of children and young people. Through play, children can communicate thoughts, needs, satisfactions, problems and feelings. An adult can learn a lot about a child’s feelings of joy, hope, anger and fear by watching, listening to and talking with a child at play.
Play brings together the ideas, feelings, relationships and physical life of the child. It helps children to use what they know and to understand things about the world and people they meet. Play is central to learning and it is part of a whole network for learning.
Play is crucial for the development of good self-esteem and for becoming a rounded personality and it co- ordinates a child’s learning and makes it whole.
Flexibility and Thinking
This is a concept which is based on a child’s thinking, intellectual development and ideas as well as using play as a way in which a child’s learning becomes whole.
The use of flexibility and thinking as one of the tools for role and purpose of play was developed by Jean Piaget. He said that children are actively involved in their own learning, children learn by accommodation, assimilation and they use the same skill presented in different ways to support this. Jean Piaget also laid emphasis on children passing through four distinct stages. These stages are: sensory motor; pre-operational; concrete operational and formal operational.
Neurological development
This is the development of the brain through play. Neurological development is influenced by play and its foundations enable problem solving, language and creativity learning through play. Also, Neurological development...