I found this artical on a website for parents, carers and students. Its quite a factual piece about how play effects a childs development in the early years of their life. It talks about play for all living things in their early life which i have never thought about- "...Play is universal throughout the animal kingdom -- whether it's a puppy chasing its tail, or young birds swooping through the air. " Its a very interesting way too look at it. All living things go through the play stage in their early years and it is only through that, that they learn a way of life through their parents and experiances which will then structure the rest of their lives.
It dicusses the importance of how parents influence a childs wellbeing through play. Children are stimulated through our parents taking the time to talk to their child, play with them and open them up to new experiances. It made me realize that some of us only know how to do this through how our parents treated us so we pass it on to our children...so what happens to the children that are treated badly by their parents? how do they get the experiances and lessons that we learnt? what effects does this have on knock on generations?
http://www.child-development-guide.com/importance-of-play.html
I found another artical about the importance of play from somewho who practices in New York, America Anita Gurian, PhD. She states that play is from the ages of 2-6years. Its interesting to see that someone has actually put a time frame on this play stage in a childs life and quite debatible for some practioners. This would be something i could use in my inquiry as personally i feel that we never stop playing, even way into our adult years. It also makes me think about education settings and how they beleive that once passed reception age children are expected to have only short times to actaully have free play where they choose what they want to do. The rest is structured learning. Is this to early for them? what effects does it make on our children being deprived of this play? How old should children be allowed to play up to? are we fausing our children to grow up to quickly?
Again in this article it states how important parents are to the development of our children. But how do we expet our parents to support this if they dont no how to do it themselves? How can we chage this?
http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/play_important_or_waste_time
A literature review written by Josie Gleave in june 2009. In this review she discusses the importance of play but how it is being effected. Alot of schools now go by the EYFS but are starting to use it as a learning structure for the children where as josie is saying we should just let them play. She addresses issues themed as:
Play has become more organised and structured
Play has become ‘institutionalised’
Children are spending less time in outdoor space
Children’s time could be ‘over-scheduled’
Differences in children’s time to play
Modern technology
The family
Schools
Within these themes Josie discusses how simple things like walking to school with out an adult is important to a childs development. She has looked at historic changes in education and early years of childrens life. Its interesting to see how much it has changes, Only 6 % of children walk to school on their own these days. Not many children even experiance playing in a public space with out suppervision from an adult. Even i can remember being allowed to play out on my road and given boundies but now i very rarely see children playing out and i definatly wouldnt allow my niece or nephew to play out. All these ideas link in with my ideas for my inquiry about play development.
http://www.playday.org.uk/pdf/Childrens-time-to-play-a-literature-review.pdf
Looking at different peoples view points on Play development has really opened my eyes to how i can go about my inquiry and some of the themes i can lead it to. As a practioner i enjoy looking into different peoples view points and i feel that it helps to brauden my knowledge on this subject area.
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