Learning Through Play In The Early Years A Resource Book. Learning through play in the early years. Routledge dec 12 2018 education 212 pages.
Learning through play is an essential handbook for early years practitioners on how to develop their understanding and practical applications in all early years settings. The methodology and suggested progression in this document is appropriate for the proposed. Advancing a movement skills based approach to help teachers deliver learning flexibly the book identifies how getting children active contributes to their wellbeing and development and improves personal and social skills as well as their cognitive learning.
Play and learning can not be divided during the earliest years because as children are finding out about what things do when they touch them and what they can do when sitting crawling cruising clambering climbing standing reaching pulling pushing and so on they are also gaining mastery and control of their bodies so play is learning.
By helping the reader to develop their understanding of the complex relationships between play and learning play and learning in the early years examines current theoretical perspectives on play alongside examples of recent and innovative play research from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. This booklet has been compiled by the early years interboard panel in response to requests by practitioners in early years settings for guidelines on provision and progression in play. In this practical resource tania swift provides early years professionals and teachers with advice and tips on incorporating physical activities into all key areas of children s learning. Play and learning can not be divided during the earliest years because as children are finding out about what things do when they touch them and what they can do when sitting crawling cruising clambering climbing standing reaching pulling pushing and so on they are also gaining mastery and control of their bodies so play is learning.
