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Play is essential for a child's optimal social, cognitive, physical, and emotional development. [20] Researchers agree that play establishes a foundation for intellectual growth, creativity, and basic academic knowledge. [3] [25] [26] According to Dorothy Singer, make-believe games allow children to imagine different roles and scenarios.
Parallel play (adjacent play, social coaction) – when the child plays separately from others but close to them and mimicking their actions. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This type of play is seen as a transitory stage from a socially immature solitary and onlooker type of play, to a more socially mature associative and cooperative type of play.
The Oxford Development Preschool Program was founded in Great Britain in the early 1980s, as part of a growing recognition that lifelong character traits and social skills are inculcated in the earliest years of childhood development. [2]
Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development. It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others. [ 1 ]
The incidence and quality of physical activity education in early childhood education have a strong positive effect on the cognitive, social and physical development of young children. [12] Early childhood is a stage of rapid growth, development and learning and each child makes progress at different speeds and rates. [13]
Dramatic play greatly enhances a child’s social and emotional development when children cooperate, feel empathy, and control their emotions. [16] In the United States, literacy is a number one priority for both public and private education. In fact, the United States’ literacy rate is one of the highest in the world, reaching 99% of the ...
Comprehensive programmes addressing health, nutrition and development have proven to be the most effective in early childhood, especially in programmes at very young and vulnerable children. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This requires a genuine commitment from agencies and individuals to work together, to plan projects collaboratively, and to involve parents and ...
The optimal development of children is considered vital to society and it is important to understand the social, cognitive, emotional, and educational development of children. Increased research and interest in this field has resulted in new theories and strategies, especially with regard to practices that promote development within the school ...