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  2. Learning through play - Wikipedia

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    Ontario Early Years Centres-These centers focus on play-based learning through parent-child interaction. Parents and caregivers can stay with the child and access information about available programs and services. [47] Reggio Emilia approach-is a child-directed curriculum model that follows the children's interests. It emphasizes purposeful ...

  3. Elinor Goldschmied - Wikipedia

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    Violet Elinor Goldschmied (née Sinnott; 15 December 1910 – 27 February 2009) was an English educationalist. Educated at the London School of Economics and qualified as a psychiatric social worker, she worked in an Italian state institution for illegitimate and abandoned children before moving to a home for single mothers in Milan, overseeing changes to the education of children and the ...

  4. Play therapy - Wikipedia

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    The efficacy of directive play therapy has been less established than that of nondirective play therapy, yet the numbers still indicate that this mode of play therapy is also effective. [70] In 2001 meta analysis by authors Ray, Bratton, Rhine, and Jones, direct play therapy was found to have an effect size of .73 compared to the .93 effect ...

  5. Social emotional development - Wikipedia

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    Increasing evidence suggests that these problems remain moderately stable over periods of 1–2 years, suggesting clinical and societal benefits to early identification and intervention. [34] Standardized assessments have been developed to identify social emotional concerns as young as 6 months old. [35]

  6. Head Start (program) - Wikipedia

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    In the early years, some 700,000 children enrolled at a per-capita cost of $2,000 to $3,000 (2011 dollars). Under the full-time program, enrollment dropped to under 400,000 by the early 1970s. Enrollment reached close to 1 million children by 2011.

  7. Emergent curriculum - Wikipedia

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    The facilitator role for the teacher involves careful observations of the children and their play as well as flexibility and creativity in order to develop learning opportunities that align with their interests (Cassidy et al., 2003; Crowther, 2005; Jones & Reynolds, 2011; Stacey, 2009a/2011b; Machlachlan et al., 2013; Wein, 2008; Wright, 1997).

  8. Affect heuristic - Wikipedia

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    The affect heuristic is typically used while judging the risks and benefits of something, depending on the positive or negative feelings that people associate with a stimulus. It is the equivalent of "going with your gut". If their feelings towards an activity are positive, then people are more likely to judge the risks as low and the benefits ...

  9. Heuristic (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    This heuristic is one of the reasons why people are more easily swayed by a single, vivid story than by a large body of statistical evidence. [60] It may also play a role in the appeal of lotteries: to someone buying a ticket, the well-publicised, jubilant winners are more available than the millions of people who have won nothing. [59]