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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Kevin Fell.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour lecture/workshop each week, practical observation tasks in consultation with lecturing staff, and one associated workshop. Eight 3-hour field days.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- define play from a number of different perspectives;
- demonstrate knowledge of some of the major sociological and psychological theories of play;
- conduct structured observations of children's play and interpret these observations from at least two theoretical perspectives; and
- understand the influence of play on specific aspects of development.
Content:
The relationship between children's play and development. Concepts of play, theories of play, analysis of frameworks for observing play, current research and application of theory to early childhood settings.
Assessment:
A 3-hour examination (50 per cent); and a project based on observations of children's play, equivalent to 2,000 words (50 per cent).
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