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  • Your definition of play and its relationship to healthy development and learning during early childhood
  • Why play can be elusive in terms of application and practice in early childhood education settings
  • Insights you have gleaned with regard to the different types of play and the different benefits of play

Resources to use for this assignment

  • Article: Almon, K. (2002). The vital role of play in early childhood education. Gateways43. Retrieved from http://www.waldorfresearchinstitute.org/pdf/BAPlayAlmon.pdf
  • Article: Kohn, A. (2008). Progressive education: Why it's hard to beat, but also hard to find. Retrieved from http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/progressive.htm
    Copyright 2008 by Alfie Kohn. This article may be downloaded, reproduced, and distributed without permission as long as each copy includes this notice along with citation information (i.e., name of the periodical in which it originally appeared, date of publication, and author's name). Permission must be obtained in order to reprint this article in a published work or in order to offer it for sale in any form. Please write to the address indicated on the Contact Us page.
  • Article: Feeney, S. (2006). Which way should we go from here? Some thoughts on the early childhood curriculum. Retrieved from http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200609/FeeneyBTJ.pdf
  • Article: Rushton, S., & Juola-Rushton, A. (2008). Classroom learning environment, brain research, and the no child left behind initiative: 6 years later. Early Childhood Education Journal36(87), 87-92.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.

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