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Prioritizing free play in early childhood sets the stage for a more resilient, adaptable, and imaginative adult. [6] By creating environments that support and nurture free play, children are empowered to explore their potential, develop their unique talents, and build the foundations of creativity, problem solving, self-regulation and empathy.
Jean Piaget emphasized how children construct knowledge through play-based stages of development, which has influenced many early childhood education programs. Fredrich Froebel's idea of play as 'serious work' aligns with modern perspectives on play's educational value. [12] Modern perspectives also examine play's impact on a child's development.
Some countries in the twenty-first century have added emphasis of free play into their values for children in early childhood, for example Taiwan and Hungary. [5] Structured play has clearly defined goals and rules. Such play is called a "game". Other play is unstructured or open-ended.
Specifically, he said, "play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in the child's soul." Froebel believed that teachers should act as a facilitators and supporters for the students's play, rather than an authoritative, disciplinary figure.
Stages of play is a theory and classification of children's participation in play developed by Mildred Parten Newhall in her 1929 dissertation. [1] Parten observed American preschool age (ages 2 to 5) children at free play (defined as anything unrelated to survival, production or profit). Parten recognized six different types of play:
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Cooperative play and socio-dramatic play both bring about increased social interactions, as compared to solitary play and parallel play, where children play similarly next to each other without significant interaction (e.g., two children building their own towers). It is here where play becomes intertwined with social emotional development.
An observer will notice that the children occasionally see what the others are doing and then modify their play accordingly. The older the children are, the less frequently they engage in this type of play. However, even older preschool children engage in parallel play, an enduring and frequent activity over the preschool years. The image of ...