'Inside Role-Play in Early Childhood Education':
I found this book online in one of our first SSI lessons and the school library got it in for me. Although it is a hard read, it is very interesting and is very useful for my investigation.
As I have been reading this book, I have been photocopying certain pages, highlighting specific parts, and annotating them.
The authors of this book have conducted research into how role-play is implemented in children's early education. They went to three different educating centres; a reception and year 1 mixed class in a rural primary school, a reception class in a primary school in s small town and an early years unit in a large urban school. All the children who participated were aged 4 or 5. The number of adults who participated in the study consisted of six teachers (all female), and six assistant teachers (five female, one male).
“Play activities nurture imagination and creativity and that develop social competence....... Thus laying firm foundations for lifelong learning”
Page 10
This shows that play in children's early lives are very important, this disagrees with what the government who want to get rid of play in nurseries because they don't understand how enriching for a child it can be. Children gain many skills from learning through play; social skills, helps improve speech, hand/eye co-ordination, imagination, independence and team work skills.
“The child needs to have some understanding of two worlds- the world in which the banana is just a banana, and the world in which the banana can also become a telephone”
Page 24
Children develop their imagination through play which helps to improve their social skills when role-playing in a group.
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“Role-play encourages representational thinking
• Role-play involves problem-solving
• Role-play encourages turn-taking and negotiation”
As I have been reading this book, I have been photocopying certain pages, highlighting specific parts, and annotating them.
The authors of this book have conducted research into how role-play is implemented in children's early education. They went to three different educating centres; a reception and year 1 mixed class in a rural primary school, a reception class in a primary school in s small town and an early years unit in a large urban school. All the children who participated were aged 4 or 5. The number of adults who participated in the study consisted of six teachers (all female), and six assistant teachers (five female, one male).
“Play activities nurture imagination and creativity and that develop social competence....... Thus laying firm foundations for lifelong learning”
Page 10
This shows that play in children's early lives are very important, this disagrees with what the government who want to get rid of play in nurseries because they don't understand how enriching for a child it can be. Children gain many skills from learning through play; social skills, helps improve speech, hand/eye co-ordination, imagination, independence and team work skills.
“The child needs to have some understanding of two worlds- the world in which the banana is just a banana, and the world in which the banana can also become a telephone”
Page 24
Children develop their imagination through play which helps to improve their social skills when role-playing in a group.
• Role-play involves problem-solving
• Role-play encourages turn-taking and negotiation”
Page
37
Three of the many important reasons why play in early years education is important.
Three of the many important reasons why play in early years education is important.
“Girls displaying
stereotypical notions of being a mother/baby roles..... Involved
emotional-caretaking behaviours”
Page
92
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