scholarly journals Role Play and Dialogue in Early Childhood Education

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Childhood Education

Beyond uniform reproduction: Exploring children’s imaginative play through the lenses of their teacher

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Torunn Grindheim
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Cultural Formation ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Imaginative Play ◽  
Children's Development

The voices of both early childhood education teachers and children tend to be weak in the choir of agents that constitute the aims and practices of early childhood education. In this article, a video that a teacher made of four children playing dragons, followed by open-ended interviews exploring why she found this particular activity of interest and then open-ended interviews with the involved children while watching and commenting on the video, forms the basic material for discussing how children’s imaginative play can inform what might be valuable activities in early childhood education. The theoretical framework and concepts for analysis draw on an understanding of cultural formation and a cultural-historical approach that outlines children’s development through participation in activities framed by contextual conditions. By tracing conflicts caused by differences in the involved children’s values and motives while meeting conditions and demands in their context, at the personal, institutional and societal levels, the exploration of friendship, danger, space, institutional rooms and what good play ‘is’ are depicted in children’s imaginative role play. From this, imaginative play is seen as being endowed with valuable activities in early childhood education and forms a contrast to the emphasis on future academic competences that are far removed from the children’s experiences.

scholarly journals Playworlds and Narratives as a Tool of Developmental Early Childhood Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
P. Hakkarainen ◽  
M. Bredikyte
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Design Systems ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Research Collective

We shortly introduce some main ideas of a project of scientific research collective “School” (Shkola) led by academic V.V. Davydov. The collective elaborated a new project — “Concept of preschool education” [9] that would better meet the developmental and educational needs of young children and create the basis for learning activity at school. The project has inspired development of playworld pedagogy in Sweden and Finland. Now 30 years later, attempts to design systems of developmental early childhood education try to concretize central concepts of Davydov’s project. This article presents interpretation and elaboration of the main ideas of the project in playworld pedagogy developed in Scandinavian early childhood education. We propose a systematic transition from joint adult — children play, to independent children initiated play. Children’s personality development presupposes esthetic reaction and contradictory unity of affect and intellect in narrative role play. We have concluded that present attempts to design new developmental early childhood education programs cannot forget the ideas of the collective from the 1990’s.

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2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Martine Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Creative Role

scholarly journals Children’s time use and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in early childhood education and care in Finland

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Liisa Kyhälä ◽  
Jyrki Reunamo ◽  
Juha O. Valtonen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Physical Activity Recommendations

Background: The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is crucial in the implementation of the physical activity recommendations during long ECEC days. Young children should engage in 180 minutes of physical activity spread throughout the day, including 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). To attain the goal more information is needed on children’s time use and physical activity (PA) in children’s activities.Aim: The purposes of this quantitative observational study were twofold: (1) to examine children’s time use and (2) to describe which children’s activities best generate physical activity, specifically MVPA, in ECEC.Setting: Altogether, 2879 Finnish children, aged from 1- to 6-years, participated in this study.Methods: The data of 57 881 observations were analysed using cross-tabulation and a z-test.Results: Daily routines (e.g. eating, dressing, napping and transition), task or seatwork and material play accounted for almost 70% of children’s sedentary behaviour and less than 10% of MVPA. The best MVPA generators were physical activities (that generated 57.4% of all MVPA in boys vs. 62.8% in girls, respectively), rule play (11% in boys vs. 6.7% in girls) and role play (10.1% in boys vs. 9.9% in girls) as well as action not allowed (3.3% in boys vs. 1.2% in girls).Conclusions: Educators should integrate physical activities, rule play and role play more in ECEC day to support the realisation of the recommendations.

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