Importance of play (psed5)
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Importance of Play on Children’s Overall Development Noven Tungala BEEd – ECEd PSED 5: Personal and Social Development
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Importance of Play on Children’s Overall
Development
Noven TungalaBEEd – ECEd
PSED 5: Personal and Social Development
Play is also an essential part of their education
because while they are playing they are learning
To occupy oneself in amusement, sport or other recreation
To act To pretend to be To use or manipulate
Source: www.thefreedictionary.com/play
Definitions of Play
Enables children to explore their world Develops social and cultural understandings Helps children express their thoughts and
feelings Provides opportunities to meet and solve
problems Develops language and literacy skills and
concepts.
Why Is Play Important?
PLAY
Cognitive
Language & Literacy
Social
Emotional
Physical
Creativity &
Imagination
Concrete learning and problem solving
through play enhances higher thinking skills
Cognitive Development
Communication Verbal interaction Play with language Experienced with reading and writing
Language and Literacy Development
Negotiating roles, appreciating feeling of
others, gain access to ongoing play Respond to peer’s feelings, waiting for turn,
sharing materials and experiences Experiment with roles of people Experience others point of view
Social Development
Emotional Development
Simplifying events by creating an imaginary character or setting to match their emotional state.
Emotional Development
Compensating for situations by adding forbidden acts to pretend play.
Emotional Development
Liquidating experiences when children repeatedly enact unpleasant or frightening experiences to gain control over the resulting emotions.
Emotional Development
Anticipating behaviors and events by pretending that another character, real or imaginary, commits the act and suffers the consequences when children are concerned with the consequences of disobeying an adult often.
Fine and gross motor development Body awareness
Physical Development
Invent ideas and use imagination in risk from
environment Using imaginations in play they are more
creative, perform better at schools tasks, and develop a problem-solving approach to learning.
Creativity and Imagination
They learn to discover, explore, and challenge the
world
They aren’t just playing
They are learning the life skills they will need to be successful.
Preserve play in
childhood
Isenberg, J. and Jalongo, M., Creative
Expression and Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum, New York: Macmillian Publishing, pg 35-38
http://www.originalplay.com/develop.htm http://www.learningchild.com.au/ccd/play
Sources:
Importance of Play on Children’s Overall
Development
Noven TungalaBEEd – ECEd
PSED 5: Personal and Social Development
