The Occurrence of Pretend Play in Early Childhood Education in Romania -- An Investigative Study

Autor/inn/en	Catalano, Horatiu; Campbell-Barr, Verity
Titel	The Occurrence of Pretend Play in Early Childhood Education in Romania -- An Investigative Study
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 191 (2021) 3, S.349-359 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Catalano, Horatiu) ORCID (Campbell-Barr, Verity)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2019.1621306
Schlagwörter	Play; Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Emotional Development; Social Development; Physical Development; Intellectual Development; Teacher Attitudes; Romania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Gefühlsbildung; Soziale Entwicklung; Körperliche Entwicklung; Mental development; Geistige Entwicklung; Lehrerverhalten; Rumänien
Abstract	At preschool age, it is generally accepted that children's main pursuit is play. In particular, pretend play has a major role in supporting a preschooler's learning processes. Early pretend play involves object substitution, before later progressing to the incorporation of invisible objects. The purpose of the presented study was to validate that pretend play contributes significantly to children's emotional, social, physical and intellectual development and can achieve the skills promoted by The Curriculum for Preschool Education in Romania. A questionnaire-based survey was undertaken, consisting of factual items (age, grade teacher), closed questions with pre-coded answers that were easily quantifiable and open questions that required analysis. The questionnaire was administered to a non-probabilistic sample, consisting of 80 kindergarten educators which were arbitrarily selected from nine kindergartens. The findings support the hypothesis of the advantages of pretend play in relation to The Curriculum for Preschool Education in Romania. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01