Understanding learning and development through play
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser reading text: 'Positive learning environment'
- 'Enabling Environments’ from Early Years Matters
- 'Gender stereotyping in the Early Years’ written by Cathy Nutbrown in Teach Early Years.
- 'Eight ways to challenge stereotypes in Early Years settings’ from the Let Toys Be Toys websites
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Stereotyping in play'.
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'How play supports development'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This article from the Early Years Matters website looks at learning through play, and the areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.
- The Family First website offers articles looking at how children learn through play.
- This Early Years website article looks at how children learn maths through play.
- Click to read this article from Day Nurseries that looks at how 'Nursery workers 'unconsciously' reinforce gender stereotypes'.
- Think And Challenge
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