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Analyse The Relationship Between Children's Play And Learning

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For this assignment, I will be focusing on children and young people’s play and learning. My two key issues that I’ll be focusing on is how the environment supports play and how different types of play enables children to learn. Piaget (1962) defined play as assimilation, or the child's efforts to make environmental stimuli match his or her own concepts. Piagetian theory holds that play, in and of itself, does not necessarily result in the formation of new cognitive structures. Piaget claimed that play was just for pleasure, and while it allowed children to practice things they had previously learned, it did not necessarily result in the learning of new things. http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=240 …show more content…

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2013/06/5675/8The Scottish Curriculum for Excellence emphasises the importance of play and that: ” Play is freely chosen, personally directed, intrinsically motivated behaviour that actively engages the child” (Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2010).http://www.bonningtonhousenursery.co.uk/downloads/Learning%20through%20Play%20-%20download.pdf The role that practitioners is vital as they might inspire children and young people’s imagination and creativity the practitioners will then observe the children and young people and only play when they are invited. For children and young people there are many benefits in why playing outdoors in important it provides children and young people with physical activities as they will be provided with different opportunities to run, jump and balance while using different equipment. For the indoor environment, it can provide children and young people the chance to develop their special awareness and their fine motor skills as they would be using their hands more within the class whereas in the outdoor environment they are mainly using their gross motor skills and sometimes their fine motor skills depending on what the child or young person is doing. Also being outdoors allows the child or young person to ask questions about how things grows. For example: In forest school children and young people are provided with a range of task to develop their fine and gross motor skills as individuals or as a team. Allowing the children and you people can also aid kinaesthetic learners who struggle to grasp learning in the class room being outside provides the kinaesthetic learner to have hands on learning as they are able to

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