Rethinking Teachers' Roles in Creating a Play-Based Learning Environment

Autor/in	Zhang, Aidong
Titel	Rethinking Teachers' Roles in Creating a Play-Based Learning Environment
Quelle	In: Dimensions of Early Childhood, 50 (2022) 3, S.19-25 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-6177
Schlagwörter	Play; Educational Environment; Teacher Role; Early Childhood Teachers; Achievement Gap; Evidence Based Practice; Reggio Emilia Approach; Neurosciences; Developmentally Appropriate Practices; Socialization; Brain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Lehrerrolle; Early childhood; Early childhood education; Teacher; Teachers; Frühe Kindheit; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Reggio-Pädagogik; Neuroscience; Neurowissenschaften; Neurowissenschaft; Entwicklungsbezogene Bildung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Gehirn
Abstract	Play-based classroom learning environments have an immediate and long-term impact on children's optimal growth and development. With the continuing efforts of state and federal government agencies to fund early childhood programs with the intention of assuring that all children enter school ready to learn, enrollment into these programs continues to grow. However, progress to reduce the achievement gap continues to be slow (Kober et al., 2010). As such, increasing attention has been paid to two issues in the current early childhood education literature: play-based classroom learning environments and roles of early childhood teachers in creating play-based learning environments. This examines how neuroscience's support of a play-based learning environment for children. Vygotsky's social and cultural learning theory, the Reggio Emilia approach, and developmentally appropriate practice are also discussed. They provide the theoretical background that explains the importance of play and of learning environments for children's optimal growth and development (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01