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With Joan Wood and Inge Smithells, Beeby established the first nursery playcentres in the early 1940s, precursor to the present-day Playcentre organisation. [8] [9] The aim of the playcentres was to give mothers some relief from single parenting while their husbands were absent fighting in World War II. [3]
Playcentre is an early childhood education and parenting organisation which operates cooperative parent-led early childhood education centres [1] throughout New Zealand. While the concept originated in New Zealand, [ 5 ] it is now also established in Japan.
The architect Simon Nicholson numbered among the advantages of the adventure playground, "the relationship between experiment and play, community involvement, the catalytic value of play leaders, and indeed the whole concept of a free society in miniature.'" [7] Essential in this for Nicholson was the concept of 'loose parts': "In any ...
The pool opened in 1992, and was then closed in November 1999 after problems were found including tiles coming away from walls, electrical problems and rusting structures. It reopened in 2002 and a new multisensory play area was introduced in 2003. [3] Repairs were estimated to have cost £270,000. [4]
Early Learning House [1] or simply the House Series is a collection of four main educational video games and two compilations for the Windows and Macintosh platforms, developed by Theatrix Interactive, Inc. and published by Edmark software. Each different game focuses on a particular major learning category with selectable skill settings for ...
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Just as there is no formal difference between play and ritual, so the 'consecrated spot' cannot be formally distinguished from the play-ground. The arena, the card-table, the magic circle, the temple, the stage, the screen, the tennis court, the court of justice, etc, are all in form and function play-grounds, i.e. forbidden spots, isolated ...
Typical components of an outdoor playset include: Towers. In a playset, a tower is a vertical structure with one or more decks placed at various levels.