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  2. Learning through play - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Social emotional development - Wikipedia

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    Play can have an important role in social emotional development, allowing opportunities to engage in practice cooperation, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. Play is often cited as a central building block to children's development, so much so that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has declared it to be a human right of ...

  4. Play therapy - Wikipedia

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    Jean Piaget emphasized play as an essential expression of children's feelings, especially because they do not know how to communicate their feelings with words. [3] Play helps a child develop a sense of true self and a mastery over their innate abilities resulting in a sense of worth and aptitude. [4]

  5. Infant cognitive development - Wikipedia

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    It is an important milestone in the stages of cognitive development for infants. Numerous tests regarding it have been done, usually involving a toy and a crude barrier which is placed in front of the toy, and then removed repeatedly ( peekaboo ).

  6. Early childhood - Wikipedia

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    Development during early childhood is an important topic, specifically self-regulation during this stage of development. This study took place in 4 different areas, which included Michigan State University, Oregon State University, University of Michigan and the Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Within this study, a sample of 1,386 ...

  7. Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia

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    However, they now can think in images and symbols. Other examples of mental abilities are language and pretend play. Symbolic play is when children develop imaginary friends or role-play with friends. Children's play becomes more social and they assign roles to each other. Some examples of symbolic play include playing house, or having a tea party.

  8. Samuel Wilderspin - Wikipedia

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    On the Importance of educating the Infant Poor, 2nd ed. London, 1824; a third edition appeared in 1825 as Infant Education. Early Discipline illustrated, London, 1832; 3rd ed. 1840. A System for the Education for the Young, London, 1840. A Manual for the Instruction of Young Children (with Thomas John Terrington), London and Hull, 1845.

  9. Early childhood education - Wikipedia

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    Early childhood education (ECE), also known as nursery education, is a branch of education theory that relates to the teaching of children (formally and informally) from birth up to the age of eight. [1] Traditionally, this is up to the equivalent of third grade. [2] ECE is described as an important period in child development.