Reading Week 6 - Landscapes for Play Flashcards
What can high-quality early childhood education support?
- child development
What can high-quality early childhood education mitigate?
- Social disadvantages
What is crucial for children’s development in childcare centers?
- Outdoor play spaces
What is essential for children’s exploration and understanding of the world?
- Risky Play
Why is risky play increasingly restricted despite benefits?
- Safety concerns
Based on theory and research on optimal play environments what are environments described by?
- Their affordances they offer for action
What do versatile play environments maximize?
- Affordances they offer for action
What do natural play environments offer?
- Complex and diverse play opportunities
- Benefits of various aspects of development
What do the Seven Cs criteria prioritize?
- Natural materials and elements in play space design
- Affordances for play
What was used to examine the intervention’s effect on children’s outcomes?
- Convergent mixed methods repeated measures design
What happen to the Seven C’s scores following intervention? What does it indicate?
- Significant increase
- indicating improved play space design
What happened when play with natural materials increased?
- Antisocial behaviour decreased
What was the gender differences in play behaviour?
- Girls engaged in more prosocial behaviour
What happened to childrens interaction with early childhood educators post-intervention?
- More independent play observed
What are the Seven Cs?
- Character
- Context
- Connectivity
- Change
- Chance
- Clarity
- Challenge
