scholarly journals The role of play in children’s learning: the perspective of Ghanaian early years stakeholders

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esinam Ami Avornyo ◽  
Sara Baker
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

Rethinking early years: how the neoliberal agenda fails children

Soundings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (76) ◽  
pp. 128-157
Author(s):  
Celia Burgess-Macey ◽  
Clare Kelly ◽  
Marjorie Ouvry
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Formal Curriculum ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Early Years Education ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Children's Learning

Early years education in England is in crisis. This article looks at what is needed to better provide the kind of education and care that young children need outside the home, from birth to school-starting age. It explores: the current arrangements and varieties of provision and approaches in England; educational and developmental research about young children's development and early learning; the current national early years curriculum and how it contrasts to other international models and pedagogical approaches; the importance of play-based learning; the role of adults in observing, recording, assessing and supporting young children's learning; and the holistic nature of children's learning - which makes education and care inseparable in young children's lives. Neoliberal governments have had little interest in these questions: they have been focused instead on marketising the sector, which has led to great inequality of provision; and they have been unwilling to provide the necessary funding to train staff and maintain appropriate learning environments; most fundamentally, they have engaged in an ideological drive to impose on very small children a narrow and formal curriculum that ignores all the evidence about good practice in the sector, and is focused on making them 'school ready' - that is, ready to fit into the rigid frameworks they have already imposed on primary school education.

Play-based Learning and Intentional Teaching: Forever Different?

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Curriculum Innovation ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

PLAY-BASED LEARNING IS a cornerstone of early childhood education provision. Play provides opportunities for young children to explore ideas, experiment with materials and express new understandings. Play can be solitary, quiet and reflective. Play can also be social, active and engaging. While play is commonly understood as the basis for learning in early childhood education, this is not always the situation in all settings. Cultural variations in learning and play suggest that social interactions and observational learning also create powerful pedagogical learning environments for young children. International and national research highlights the value of sustained and reflective interactions between children and educators in promoting children's learning. Increasingly, the notion of quality in play-based pedagogy invites educators to integrate traditional beliefs about play with new insights into the role of social interactions, modelling and relationships in young children's learning. Overseas, the movement towards quality play-based pedagogy reflects debate and policy initiatives captured by the notion of intentional teaching. In Australia, the Early Years Learning Framework makes explicit reference to intentional teaching. Intentional teaching arguably engages educators and children in shared thinking and problem solving to build the learning outcomes of young children. However, the pedagogical relationship between play-based learning and intentional teaching remains difficult to conceptualise. This is because the value placed on the exploratory potential of play-based learning can appear to be at odds with the role of intentional teaching in promoting knowledge development. This paper reaches beyond binary constructs of play and intentional teaching, and invites consideration of a new Pedagogical Play-framework for inspiring pedagogical and curriculum innovation in the early years. This paper was a keynote address at the 2016 Early Childhood Australia National Conference addressing the theme Inspire-be inspired to reach beyond quality.

The role of soundscape in children’s learning

2002 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 2412-2413 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lubman ◽  
Louis C. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

scholarly journals A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Bulk Funding Debate

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

This article examines the bulk funding debate and concludes, first, that it is the injection of extra money, rather than the mechanism of bulk funding itself, which has allowed some schools to enhance their offerings. Secondly, it argues that in having taken on the responsibilities of governorship (including becoming employers of their children’s teachers), parents have been diverted from the more important role of engagement with their children’s learning, in partnership with teachers. An historical overview of the vigorous debate over bulk funding is also provided, from its inception with Tomorrow’s Schools up until the present, in view of its promised demise under current government policy. The article also presents a case study of a series of events at Colenso High School, Napier, where teachers, with support from the community, caused the Board of Trustees to reverse their decision to opt into bulk funding (the Fully Funded Option).

scholarly journals PERAN IBU DALAM KEGIATAN PENDAMPINGAN BELAJAR ANAK MELALUI PRINSIP INDIVIDUAL LEARNING-CENTERED

EGALITA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Abtokhi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Learning Attitude ◽  
Learning Centered ◽  
The Right ◽  
Children's Learning

This research describing the role of the mother that very central in assisting children’s learning activities through the concept of mentoring that focuses on the uniqueness of each individual. This concept is termed a Learning- Centered Individuals who see uniquely child has potential, interests and dy- namics of each problem, so that the practical assistance should be focused on managing the potential and uniqueness of each individual dynamics prob- lems to deliver the right learning attitude, without forgetting the reaching academic achievement.<br /><br />Keywords: Ibu, pendampingan, belajar, Individual Learning-Centered

The role of recalling previous errors in middle‐school children's learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 997-1014
Author(s):  
Abbey M. Loehr ◽  
Lisa K. Fazio ◽  
Bethany Rittle‐Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

Moral and Social Development: Teachers' Knowledge of Children's Learning and Teaching Strategies in the Early Years

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Boulton-Lewis ◽  
Joanne Brownlee ◽  
Sue Walker ◽  
Charlotte Cobb-Moore ◽  
Eva Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning
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