Early Childhood Education: Critically discuss the importance of play in the curriculum for young children’s learning and development. Academic Help

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Assignment question: Critically discuss the importance of play in the curriculum for young children’s learning and development

Word Count: 4500 words in British English. Please follow Ariel point 12, not justified text and use more than 20 references in the APA Referencing style when referencing.

– The assignment must draw on carefully referenced evidence from empirical or theoretical texts. Your answer should include reference to research journal articles, academic literature, national and international policy and practice.

– Coherent narrative and 3/4/5 arguments.

– Content and critical analysis and argument is essential.

– Required reading:

Rogers, S. (2011) Play and pedagogy: a conflict of interest? In Rethinking play and pedagogy in early childhood education: concepts, contexts and cultures. Ed. Rogers, S. London: Routledge, pp. 5-19

Wood, E. (2007) ‘New Directions in Play: Consensus or Collision?’, Education, 35 (4), 309- 320.

Fung, H. & Cheng, D. (2012) ‘Consensus or dissensus? Stakeholders’ views on the role of play in learning, Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 32(1), 17-33

– Recommended reading:

Wood, E. (2013) (3rd Edition) Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum: London, SAGE Publications Ltd. (Chapter 5)

Wood, E. (2010) ‘Developing integrated pedagogical approaches to play and learning’, pp9-26 in Broadhead, P., Howard, J. and Wood, E. (eds) Play and Learning in the Early Years: From research to practice. London: Sage. (Chapter 6).

Brooker, L., Blaise, M. and Edwards, S. (2014) The SAGE handbook of play and learning in early childhood. Los Angeles: SAGE

Grieshaber, S. and McArdle, F. (2010) The trouble with play. Maidenhead: Open University Press

Wood, E. (2013) (3rd Edition) Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum: London, SAGE Publications Ltd.

Broadhead, P. And Howard, J. And Wood, E. (Eds) (2010) Play and Learning in the Early Years London, Sage

Dahlberg, G. (2009) Policies in Early Childhood Education and care: Potentialities for Agency, Play and Learning, in Qvortrup, J., Corsaro, W.A. & Honig, M. Eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies, London: Palgrave Macmillan

Wood, E. (2013) (3rd Edition) Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum: London, SAGE Publications Ltd. (Chapter 5).

Brooker. L (2011) Developing learning dispositions for life. In Waller, T. Whitmarsh, J. and Clark, K. (2011) Making sense of theory and practice in early childhood : the power of ideas Maidenhead, Open University Press. (Chapter 6 pages 83-98).

Moyles, J. (2010) The Excellence of Play Maidenhead, Open University Press.

Vygotsky, L. (1978) The role of play in development, in Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Broadhead, P. (2010) Building Friendship through Playful Learning in the Early Years in Moyles, J. (2010) The Excellence of Play Maidenhead, Open University Press.

Broadhead, P. (2010) Cooperative Play and Learning from Nursery to Year One. In Broadhead, P., Howard, J., and Wood, E. (2010) Play and Learning in the Early Years London, Sage Publications. (Chapter 8).

Wood, E. (2010) ‘Developing integrated pedagogical approaches to play and learning’, pp9-26 in Broadhead, P., Howard, J. and Wood, E. (eds) Play and Learning in the Early Years: From research to practice. London: Sage. (Chapter 6).

Brown, F. (2009) Playwork, in Brock, A., Dodds, S., Jarvis, P. and Olusoga, Y. Eds. Perspectives on Play: Learning for Life, Pearson: Longman

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