Playful learning: Where a rich curriculum meets a playful pedagogy | Preschool Matters.... - 1 views
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Playful learning is a whole-child approach to education that includes both free play and guided play.
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It refers to play in a structured environment around a general curricular goal that is designed to stimulate children’s natural curiosity, exploration, and play with learning-oriented materials.[xxii] In guided play, learning remains child-directed. This is a key point. Children learn targeted information through exploration of a well-designed and structured environment (e.g. Montessori[xxiii]) and through the support of adults who ask open-ended questions to gently guide the child’s exploration.
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Guided play allows children to become engaged; didactic instruction helps them memorize but not transfer what they have learned.
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"The Capulets and Montagues of early childhood have long battled over their vision for a perfect preschool education. Should young children be immersed in a core curriculum replete with numbers and letters or in a playful context that stimulates creative discovery? The 'preschool war' leaves educators torn and embattled politicians in deadlock. Playful learning offers one way to reframe the debate by nesting a rich core curriculum within a playful pedagogy." HT @kellyBKelly2001