Work

Guided Play

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Competing trends in early childhood education emphasize the need for strong curricular approaches and for unfettered exploration. We propose an approach to early learning that avoids this false dichotomy: guided play. Guided play takes advantage of children’s natural abilities to learn through play by allowing them to express their autonomy within a prepared environment and with adult scaffolding. We provide examples of how guided-play situations have been implemented in past work, as well as evidence that guided play is successful for education across a range of content—perhaps even more successful than other pedagogical approaches.

Source: Current Directions in Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1177/0963721416645512

Authors: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Audrey K. Kittredge, David Klahr

Institutions: University of Pennsylvania, Brookings Institution, Temple University, University of Delaware, University of Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: Early Childhood Education and Development

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2343904395

FWCI: 66.76

Cites: 42

Cited by: 442

Related to: 10