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This timely second edition explores recent developments which strongly endorse play as an integral part of the curriculum. The content has been fully revised to reflect contemporary thinking about the role and value of play in early childhood and beyond. A key focus is the provision of a secure theoretical and practical grounding for developing a pedagogy of play.
This book enables practitioners to create unity between play, learning and teaching, and to improve the quality of children's learning. New material provided by practitioners has been added, to show how this unity can be successfully achieved.
Understanding Children's Learning: Multi-Theoretical Perspectives
Understanding Children's Learning: Multi-Theoretical Perspectives
Learning and development in humans are so complex that no single theory can adequately account for all the interrelated processes involved. Knowledge about these areas is constantly expanding, particularly as new technologies allow researchers to delve into the complexities of how the human brain develops and functions. Some theories are broad scale and focus on what happens in the child's mind (a predominantly cognitive orientation), or what happens in the social and cultural contexts in which learning is situated (a predominantly social orientation). Both these orientations will be explored in Chapters 3 and 4, with further specification of their practical implications in Chapters 5 to 8. Some theories provide more detailed explanations of how children learn ...
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