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Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments.
The child’s intrinsic motivations, curiosities, and emerging understanding of the world serve as the sole compass guiding their playful exploration. [1] [5] Furthermore, free play often involves symbolic representation, where objects or actions take on different meanings, reflecting a child’s developing imagination and narrative abilities.
Whitton was the founder of the Playful Learning Network [1] and former co-chair. Whitton also co-created the Playful Learning Conference [2] which she co-chaired for the first 5 years (2016-2022). Whitton's most recent publication (2022) Play and Learning in Adulthood: Reimagining Pedagogy and the Politics of Education available at Amazon.
Within these learning principles Gee shows the reader the various ways in which games and learning are linked and how each principle supports learning through gaming. One example would be Learning Principle 6: "Psychosocial Moratorium" Principle, where Gee explains that in games, learners can take risks in a space where real-world consequences ...
Dewey's idea of influential education suggests that education must engage with and enlarge exploration of thinking and reflection associated with the role of educators. Contrary to this, Piaget argued that we learn by expanding our knowledge by experiences which are generated through play from infancy to adulthood which are necessary for learning.
An advocate of the importance of play and playful education in early childhood, she is a founder and member of the executive committee of The Ultimate Block Party which drew more than 50,000 people to its inaugural event at Central Park in New York City in October 2010.
The two teachers became models of literacy and it inspired parents to mimic the playful learning at home. Some activities the teachers proposed included: art free time increasing the use of writing tools, re-enacting stories from books they read as a class to record reading comprehension, and playing pretend (making grocery lists, playing ...
Music education for young children is offered privately through classes and music organizations or integrated into educations private and public schools. Activities and classes can start as early as prenatally or newborn [3] and in private education, music programs are often integrated in as early as preschool. Early childhood music education ...