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Exploring Children’s Play Culture and Game Construction: Role of Sociodramatic Play in Supporting Agency
The purpose of the study was to explore the sociodramatic play taking place in an early childhood classroom, with a specific focus on the...
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The impact of a global pandemic on undergraduate learning experiences: lifting the restrictions
AimThe aim of this study is to determine how students believe their learning-related experiences (i.e., attention, affect, and time perception) have...
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Early Childhood Practitioners’ Perceptions of Children’s Risky Play Based on Childhood and Present Practice: A Questionnaire Survey in Japan
Similar to countries in Europe and the Americas, risky play is a feature in Japanese early childhood education and care. This study investigated the...
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Draw and Tell: Uncovering Korean Infant Teachers’ Play Experiences and Their Views in Supporting Infants’ Play
Using a drawing-based research approach, this qualitative study explored in-service infant teachers' reflections on their play experiences and ways...
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A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Digital Play Addiction Tendencies and Parental Guidance Strategies
The current study aims to identify changing trends in digital play addiction tendencies among young children and parental guidance strategies before,...
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Risky Play and Ethics
Risky play is important for children’s mental and physical development. This chapter introduces the topic of risky play and the connection to ethical...
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Eating Prickly Peas: Sharing Play Worlds During Preschool Meals
Play has long been understood as an important pedagogical practice, particularly in early childhood education and care settings. Playing with food,...
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Risky Play, Then and Now
Play is an essential part of childhood. It is through play that children explore, experience, learn, and develop. An important element of play is...
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Entering Kindergarten After Years of Play: A Cross-Case Analysis of School Readiness Following Play-Based Education
Cross-case study research was used to explore the school readiness of four 5-year-old children entering kindergarten during the 2020–2021 school year...
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Play Responsive Assessment of Children’s Mathematical Proficiencies in Norwegian Kindergarten
This article focuses on kindergarten teachers’ assessment of mathematical proficiencies in Norwegian kindergartens from the perspective of cultural...
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“We do it anyway”: Professional identities of teachers who enact risky play as a framework for Education Outdoors
Accelerated by our collective pandemic experience, systems of schooling saw a groundswell of momentum to reconsider where and how learning might...
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Running the risk: The social, behavioral and environmental associations with positive risk in children’s play activities in outdoor playspaces
The importance of positive risk opportunities in children’s play environments has been well-established. Risk in play allows children to examine...
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Exploring Early Childhood Educators’ Perceptions and Practices Towards Gender Differences in STEM Play: A Multiple-Case Study in China
Various gender biases have been demonstrated in early childhood educators (ECEs) with unintentional preferential treatment provided to boys during...
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A Cross-Cultural Study on Factors Affecting Children’s Agentic Action in Their Play
Play, and especially free play, offers a unique opportunity for children to act with agency. Yet the regulated and routinized structure of early...
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Teenagers learn through play too: communicating high expectations through a playful learning approach
Play-based learning is an approach used in early childhood education that is well supported by research on its varieties and effectiveness for young...
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Gamification Design in Education: What Might Give a Sense of Play and Learning?
The purpose of this study was to propose design elements for the use of gamification in educational settings to provide a sense of play and learning...
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A cross sectional survey on the effect of COVID-19 related restrictions on undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Qatar
BackgroundCOVID-19 pandemic has affected all dimensions of day to day life across the world and medical education was no exception. With this study,...
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Children’s access to outdoors in early childhood education and care centres in China during the COVID pandemic
China has undergone rapid development in early childhood education and outdoor pedagogy in recent times. Importantly, it was the first country to...
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Playful maths! The influence of play-based learning on academic performance of Palestinian primary school children
This study explores the relationship between play-based learning and achievement in mathematics in Palestinian elementary school children. Forty...
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Social Representations of Play: Piaget, Vygotskij and Beyond
For the study and elaboration—in theory and practice—of sociocultural phenomena, it is important to realise that the content of many concepts are...