Preschool Academics: Learning What Comes Naturally

Autor/in	Elkind, David
Titel	Preschool Academics: Learning What Comes Naturally
Quelle	In: Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, (2007) 178, S.6-8 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0164-8527
Schlagwörter	Play; Fantasy; Learning Readiness; Experiential Learning; Preschool Children; Imagination; Learning Experience; Skill Development; Emergent Literacy; Numeracy; Environmental Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Fantasie; Lernbereitschaft; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Lernerfahrung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Frühleseunterricht; Rechenkompetenz; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses the importance of early childhood play. Play is simply shorthand for everyone's capacity for curiosity, imagination, and fantasy--everyone's creative dispositions. What makes play unique is that it enables everyone to create new learning experiences. To illustrate, an infant who drops a rattle from the crib, is learning about gravity. He or she is also creating a game with the parent who is retrieving the rattle. In addition, the infant learns that different objects make different sounds when they are dropped. Certainly children can learn these lessons from watching an adult perform the same actions, but it is much more powerful when the infant creates these experiences through his or her own actions. Learning by doing is always much more effective than learning by watching. Through playful activities, young children acquire the prerequisite concepts for the attainment of the tool skills of reading and math. However well intended, when everyone substitutes instruction for spontaneous play in early childhood, they hinder rather than help the attainment of these concepts. Accordingly, play in early childhood is neither a waste of time nor a luxury. Rather, play is a fundamental mode of learning that ensures the best preparation for benefiting from later academic instruction. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10