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Towards a Comprehensive View of Object-Oriented Play
The exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials, referred to as object-oriented play (OOP), is one of the most prominent activities...
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Usability Evaluation of Imikode Virtual Reality Game to Facilitate Learning of Object-Oriented Programming
Many empirical studies have shown that educational games and recent technologies impact education and increase learning effectiveness, students’...
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Exploration and Dramatizing: Theoretical Foundations for The Development of Approaches to Learning Through Play
Approaches to Learning (AtL) is widely included in many state standards for preK, as a process-oriented disposition that describes how children...
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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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Play-Activities with Scientific Content in Early Childhood Education
This article attempts to address the challenge that preschool teachers face, when integrating a specific content area, science, with play. The study...
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Exploring “Living Well” Through Children’s Play
This chapter considers how “living well in a world worth living in” is imagined, replicated and lived in children’s free play. Drawing primarily on...
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Fostering Play Through Virtual Teaching: Challenges, Barriers, and Strategies
Early childhood teachers routinely facilitate play-based learning experiences in their physical classrooms; however, the pivot to virtual teaching...
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Policy translation in assemblage: networked actors mediating science teachers’ policy play
Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense before using in practice. Using...
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Studying children’s small science and early engineering learning process to help shape their cultural identity in culturally valued play-based experience
There are no conflicts between intentional teaching and play-based learning. However, educators find it challenging to establish the pedagogical...
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Archives, Memories, and Spaces of Children’s Play: Pre-digital and Postdigital Places of Affective Possibility
This chapter frames young children’s playspaces as sites for their own research into contemporary and archival play and games. It recognises the...
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Transfer as Progressive Re-Mediation of Object-Oriented Activity in School
In this chapter, we present our theory of transfer as a progressive re-mediation of object-oriented activity. Building on sociocultural theories of...
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The Development of Mathematical Thinking in Young Children’s Play: The Role of Communicative Tools
In this article I will summarize some of the main findings over the past three decades of a research program on emergent mathematical thinking in...
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Applying the “Mantle of the Expert Approach” to Center Play in Higher Education Preparation of Early Childhood Teachers
This chapter explores the use of playful pedagogies, with a particular focus on the Mantle of the Expert (MoE) approach, in college and university...
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Engaging Children in Science Learning Through Outdoor Play
Evidence suggests that children spend much less time playing outdoors engaging in self-directed play than their parents did (Moss in Natural...
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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...
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Impact of Play-Based Pedagogies in Selected Asian Contexts: What Do We Know and How to Move Forward?
In the Asian continent, many Early Childhood Education (ECE) policies have been influenced by Western theories and pedagogies. An example is the...
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Play, Reflection, and the Quest for Uncertainty
Principles of alignment, predictability and certainty have become cornerstones in modern day conceptions of high-quality education. Yet, in recent...
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Using Guided Play to Facilitate Young Children’s Exploratory Learning
Children often learn about the world through exploratory play. Research shows that adults can either facilitate or impede children’s learning through...
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The PPSI Social Play and Social Pretend Play Protocol
As seen in the upcoming outline, the PPSI “social play and social pretend play” protocol entails 13 themes.
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Introduction: The Role of Play and STEM in the Early Years
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the entire content of the book, Play and STEM Education in the Early Years: International Policies...