Play: Perspective of Children
Location
3031
Format Type
Paper
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2016
End Date
January 2016
Abstract
The purpose of this case study is to explore and discover how children ages six to ten experience play. This case study will articulate student insights on play. Play is perhaps the one arena where children create their own plan when given the opportunity. Free play, or recess, has been a daily pleasure on school playgrounds for many years. The daily ritual of free play is dwindling in schools for children as young as four and five, as high stakes testing takes central focus. Play deprivation, according to Frost (2009), has contributed to many health problems, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Play is important for children to develop academically, as well as socially, emotionally and physically. Play, for young children, is the way in which they prepare for life. Play skills that children assimilated in the past by observing and mirroring their older friends, are now unequivocally taught, or demonstrated for children (Leong and Bodrova, 2012). Data collection for this study will consist of a semi-structured, audio/videotaped interviews along with observations of children from ages six to ten at free play.
Play: Perspective of Children
3031
The purpose of this case study is to explore and discover how children ages six to ten experience play. This case study will articulate student insights on play. Play is perhaps the one arena where children create their own plan when given the opportunity. Free play, or recess, has been a daily pleasure on school playgrounds for many years. The daily ritual of free play is dwindling in schools for children as young as four and five, as high stakes testing takes central focus. Play deprivation, according to Frost (2009), has contributed to many health problems, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Play is important for children to develop academically, as well as socially, emotionally and physically. Play, for young children, is the way in which they prepare for life. Play skills that children assimilated in the past by observing and mirroring their older friends, are now unequivocally taught, or demonstrated for children (Leong and Bodrova, 2012). Data collection for this study will consist of a semi-structured, audio/videotaped interviews along with observations of children from ages six to ten at free play.