Parallel Play

“Play refers to an activity that is predominantly pleasurable” (Veiga, Neto, & Rieffe, 2016, p.2). It provides opportunities for a child to learn about the surroundings. If a child is taking part in the play actively, it may result in more effective learning. In the early childhood education, ‘child-centered’ is important for teaching and children’s learning and development. No matter the teaching approach or curriculum of a kindergarten, play is essential to facilitate a child’s learning and…

Play is a major part of a child’s development. Whether this play is solitary or with other children, there are areas that are being developed. When children play it is not simply a waste of time, but a time where the child’s cognitive, social, and dramatic stages of play are expanding. Although one may not be able to see the growth that is happening within a child when they play, there are levels that the child is growing into and becoming more advanced. While there may be activities that seem…

Play is very important aspect of childhood, through play children learn about themselves, they learn social skills, they learn problem solving skills and get somewhat of an understanding of life. There are many types of play the two types of cognitive play is sensorimotor and symbolic play. Sensorimotor play “starts with the infants interacting with his/her environment using both objects and humans, it involves making things happen and imitating” (Gonzalez-Mena, Janet, 2014, p. 98). An example…

I have selected to observe the video titled “Preschool free play, video number two”. The classroom is an enriched environment containing many different materials that the children can choose from. Jean-Jacques Rousseau work, is categorized under maturationist theory which support this classrooms environment. His work emphasizing the importance of providing optimal conditions, to help children develop accordingly to their own schedule (Brewer, 2007, p.7). Throughout the observation the…

Kathleen Berger (2014) refers to play as, “timeless and universal.” (p. 207). My interpretation of this quote is that play can be timeless due to the fact that its so fun for children that they tend to lose track of time. Its like time doesn’t exist for the time being. Play is also universal due to it being know in every country and continent on this planet. Children use this as a release just as adults use other activities as a form of release. This also helps with development of learning…

Native story-telling and customs bear many signs of early theatric components, contemporary Native playwrights find themselves working in an unprecedented industry, where very few precursors to their craft exist. Therefore, some of the most renown plays in Western society have lodged elements of European and American postmodern theatre into the mold of Native storytelling. While one might assume that this technique would yield an incompatible mismatch of cultural performances, a comparison of…

Stages of Play Through play, children learn more about themselves and everything around them. They pick up on how to share, take turns, and socialize when they reach higher levels of play. Kids don’t all play the same way, even when they are in the same age group. They go through different stages of play as they grow and develop. In the early 1900’s, Jean Piaget, studied children on how they learn step-by-step through experience with their surroundings in four stages of play. In the 1930’s…

Practice’s production of I Came at Last to the Seas held at Singapore’s Esplanade Theatre, directed by Kuo Jian Hong. Written by playwright Wu Xi, the play inverses common understanding of Buddhist philosophy, exploring the unrest and instability of the six roots of sensation through the interwoven narratives of the play’s six central characters. The play is an inquiry into the ideas of belonging and identity: both culturally, as a Chinese in the Chinese diaspora, and, existentially, as a human.…

In this weeks chapter we learn about cognitive development and the importance of play. Address the following questions fully, each question is worth a possible 5 points. See grading rubric in syllabus for more details. How does play promote brain development and how is play important to developing friendships? The amount of skills you pick up from all the interacting and bonding with your child(ren) during infancy and their preschool years is the mapping of development. A huge reason playing…

multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre video game developed by Riot Games in Santa Monica, California. There are three different game modes players can choose to play: Classic, Dominion, and All-Random-All-Middle (commonly referred to as ARAM). In the Classic game mode, there are two different maps players can choose to play on: Summoner’s Rift, the largest map in the game, in which each team nexus, the essential goal in the Classic games, is located on opposite sides of the map. There are…