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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"children's play"”.
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Preschool Teachers' Interventions in Children's Play (Beliefs, Ideology)
… describe preschool teachers' intervention during children's free play. A Weberian sociological framework was used to examine (1) what happens when teachers intervene into children's play, (2) teachers' beliefs and thus their decisions about play, and (3) the relationship between these issues. …
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Korean kindergarten children's play choice: Activity structure and sex-type
… of sex-typed behavior of Korean kindergarten children. The study focused on the Korean kindergarten children's different activity choices in the classroom and the variables which influence this behavior.
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Relationships between types of teacher intervention and preschool children's play
… between types of teacher intervention and children's play patterns in preschool settings. An event sampling observation technique was used to examine the relationship between teachers' interventions and children's play, four play areas, and children's gender. Ten teachers were observed …
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School Recess and Changes to Children's Play Opportunities in New York City
… in US public schools was designed to improve how children learn and test in schools, but it has resulted in the decline or removal of recess from most schools. This thesis examines two important issues. The first issue is to assess the play opportunities that public elementary schools offer to …
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From children's play to intentions : a play analytics framework for constructionist learning apps
… technologies targeted at literacy learning for children is increasing. However, the majority of them are structured and reward-based. Therefore, the users' behavior and data collected from them have the same limits. In this thesis, however, we assess children's engagement with a constructionist …
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Theory of Mind Dynamics in Children's Play: A Qualitative Inquiry in a Preschool Classroom
The purpose of the study was to explore children's understanding of mind shown in children's play in a preschool classroom. Previous research on children's theory of mind has relied on empirical studies utilizing several tasks, such as false belief tasks. Since children's emerging understanding of …
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Komiesa ko speel: Heteroglossia and Multimodality in bilingual children's play in a pre-school space
… identities. It also explores bi(multi)lingual children's heteroglossic practices and multimodal communication in their play in a pre-school setting and contrasts them with the teacher's language and literacy practices. The first part of this theoretical framework examines language ideologies …
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Emergency Literacy in Children's play: A case of games played by children in two compounds in Kitwe
… type of skills, knowledge and attitudes found in children’s play or games can be characterised as foundations of reading, writing (literacy)and numeracy or those that aid their development.The sample included 30 children (16 girls and 14 boys) and their parents. Purposive sampling was used in …
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Emergency Literacy in Children's play: A case of games played by children in two compounds in Kitwe
… type of skills, knowledge and attitudes found in children’s play or games can be characterised as foundations of reading, writing (literacy)and numeracy or those that aid their development.The sample included 30 children (16 girls and 14 boys) and their parents. Purposive sampling was used in …
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Intergenerational shifts and continuities in children's play within a rural Venda family in the early 20th and 21st centuries
This research involved studying the childhood play of three generations within one family based in the Venda region, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Two main questions were asked: 1. What is the nature of intergenerational shifts or continuities in children?s play within one Venda family? 2. What …
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Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area
… and physical features that influence young children’s access to play and the quality of their play opportunities in a heterogeneous sample of high-rise housing in India. Using Bronfenbrenner’s <em>Ecological Model of Human Development</em> as a framework, the study examines two large …
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Into the Roots
Children's play
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Some Creative Processes Involved in an Original Children’s Play
… the creative processes involved in an original children's play. It provided insights into writing, directing, producing an original script, and to children's plays in general.
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Play Behavior of Korean-American and American Young Children
Children's play behavior during free play in classrooms was observed in order to understand the differences in the play behavior of preschool children with Korean-American and American backgrounds. The subjects were thirty-two Korean-American and thirty-two American children from middle class …
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Preschool Play Behaviors: The Relationship to Sociometric Status, Divergent Thinking and Classroom Materials
… purpose of this research was to study preschool children's play behaviors and their relationship to: sociometric status, divergent thinking ability, and classroom materials. Ninety-five four-year-olds were observed during free play time and were administered three sociometric tests and a …
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A project in the direction of The Arkansaw bear by Aurand Harris
The Arkansaw Bear, a children's play by Aurand Harris, was first performed on March 20-29, 1980, by The University of Texas at Austin. On October 23-25, 1981, the play was produced at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia under the direction of Marie Wendt …
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Play in a Working -Class Taiwanese Preschool
The goal of this study was to investigate children's everyday play in a working class Taiwanese preschool. Because Taiwan is currently rethinking the direction of early childhood education, it is timely to look closely at play in a preschool setting. Since recent debates in the U.S. have led some …
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Young Children's Social, Language and Motor Behaviors on Playgrounds: The Influence of Design, Age, and Sex
… has been an increased interest in the design of children's play environments, especially outdoor playgrounds. Products of this interest have been criticisms of existing "traditional" playgrounds, as well as suggestions for the design of alternative playgrounds. Despite the interest, there seems …
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The philosophy and design of an outdoor play space for pre-elementary school children
The need to redesign the outdoor play space and related equipment at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Laboratory School, in Blacksburg, Virginia, was investigated. Under the direction of the Department of Child Development, a rigid program was created which would determine …
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Family-peer linkages: The role of affective exchanges between children of varying degrees of social acceptance and their parents and peers
"This study focused on the role of children's emotional communication skills as a possible link between the quality of children's interactions with parents and peers. Participants were forty-five preschool children and their mothers and fathers. Sociometric peer acceptance data and teacher ratings …
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