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Thematic Area: Child development

Child development involves the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. In the course of development, the individual human progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy. It is a continuous process with a predictable sequence, yet has a unique course for every child.

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Children’s Right to Play: An Examination of the Importance of Play in the Lives of Children Worldwide

This report foregrounds play as a right of every child. It discusses what play is, how play differs across cultures, the importance and benefits of play, and how to provide children with the right conditions to play, including the importance of the environment for children’s play. Very important and informative book about play, what is…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Places for Children – Children’s Places

This article highlights the difference between places created by adults for children (places for children) and spaces that children themselves consider to be play spaces (children’s places). This is an important concept to keep in mind when co-designing social infrastructures with and for children. In their everyday lives, children largely stay within and relate to…
  • Publication year: 2004
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Reducing Inequities in Early Childhood Mental Health: How Might the Neighborhood Built Environment Help Close The Gap? A Systematic Search and Critical Review

This study provides a review and investigates the gaps in research that study the connection between built environment and children’s development. This paper presents a critical review of the current research investigating the associations between the neighbourhood built environment and young children’s (aged 0–8 years) mental health. In general studies found a greater access to,…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Restorative Experience, Self-Regulation, and Children’s Place Preferences

We examined the role of restorative experience and self-regulation in the formation of place preferences by Finnish children. Girls and boys aged 8-9 or 12-13 and living in downtown Tampere or Helsinki answered open- and closed-ended questions in a structured interview. One or both parents completed a questionnaire. We did not find statistically significant associations…
  • Publication year: 2002
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Cultural Variations in the Play of Toddlers

The present study examines differences in the social play of toddlers from four communities. Fourteen children, between the ages of 12 and 24 months, from four cultural communities (San Pedro, Guatemala; Kecioren, Turkey; Dhol-Ki-Patti, India; Salt Lake City, United States) participated in the study. This paper is based on an analysis of data from a…
  • Publication year: 2000
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Play as Children See It

The first section considers studies that ask children the seemingly simple question: What happens when you go to school? Of interest is whether play enters into children’s school scripts and, if it does, where it goes. Do children’s responses reveal their emotional and motivational judgments of schools and, if so, how are these judgments expressed?…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Book

A Future for the World’s Children? A Who–Unicef–Lancet Commission

In 2015, the world’s countries agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet nearly 5 years later, few countries have recorded much progress towards achieving them. This Commission presents the case for placing children, aged 0–18 years, at the centre of the SDGs: at the heart of the concept of sustainability and our shared human…
  • Publication year: 2020
  • Content Type: Report

Restoring Playfulness: Different Approaches to Assisting Children Who Are Psychologically Affected by War and Displacement

This book is divided into two parts. The first part provides an overview of key themes and issues related to refugee children including their experiences, the importance of culture, play, parenting and school for their recovery, the need for timely intervention and strategies to achieve maximum impact. The second part presents seven case studies conducted…
  • Publication year: 1996
  • Content Type: Book

Young Children’s Rights: Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice

This book examines how children’s rights as set out in the UNCRC applies to young children (0-8 years old). It discusses how to find a balance between children’s provision, protection and participation rights, especially when adults consider that they are looking out for a child’s ‘best interest’ they become overprotective and deny children their right…
  • Publication year: 2008
  • Content Type: Book

Play in Early Childhood

This book is written in Arabic and provides an overview of play theories as well as some examples of play and play provision in Lebanon.
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Academic paper

A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence

Efforts to give preschool children a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics instead rob them of play time both at home and school. Indeed, the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong…
  • Publication year: 2009
  • Content Type: Book

Resurrecting Free Play in Young Children: Looking Beyond Fitness and Fatness to Attention, Affiliation, and Affect

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate why play, and particularly active, unstructured, outdoor play, needs to be restored in children’s lives. We propose that efforts to increase physical activity in young children might be more successful if physical activity is promoted using different language—encouraging play—and if a different set of outcomes are emphasized—aspects…
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Content Type: Academic paper

War, Conflict and Play

This book provides an overall view of the impact of war and displacement on children and their development. It notes that children can be affected by direct exposure to conflict but also by indirect factors such as the emotional state of their carers. While play can have a hugely positive effect on children’s development and…
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Content Type: Book

Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression

In this book, rather than viewing play simply as a preoccupation of the young and a vehicle for skill development, Thomas S. Henricks argues that its a social and cultural phenomenon of adult life, enveloped by wider structures and processes of society. In that context, he argues that a truly sociological approach to play should…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Book

Beyond Banning War and Superhero Play: Meeting Children’s Needs in Violent Times

This article details reasons for children’s fascination with war play, and teachers’ concerns about such play. It asserts that although the best strategy is to reduce the amount of violence children see, children need to find ways to work out the violence they do see. It also offers suggestions for addressing children’s violent play, including…
  • Publication year: 2003
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing

This book draws on research conducted in the USA, the Philippines, Mexico, Japan, India and Kenya, to see how child rearing differs in different cultural contexts. One finding is that the way in which parents engage with their children during play differs across cultures.
  • Publication year: 1963
  • Content Type: Book

Using Cross-Cultural Conversations to Contextualize Understandings of Play: A Multinational Study

The study examines two researchers’ perspectives on play in the lives of children from diverse cultural contexts. Two questions guided this study: (1) how do researchers conceptualize children’s play and (2) what shapes their understanding of play. In order to answer these questions, a critical discourse was established between two researchers who had each completed…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum

The Third Edition of this popular book reflects contemporary research as well as thinking about the role and value of play in learning and development, within and beyond early childhood. The author explores recent developments across international contexts which endorse play, and argues for critical engagement with some aspects of policy discourse in how ‘educational…
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Book

Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference to Children’s Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children’s Policy

This paper argues the importance of exploring the effect of the neighbourhood built environment on child development as a crucial first step towards informing urban design principle to help reduce developmental vulnerability in children, and set optimal child development trajectories early.
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The Development of Play

The book explores the central role of play in childhood development. David Cohen examines how children play with objects, with language, and most importantly with each other and their parents. He explains how play enables children to learn how to move, think, speak and imagine, as well as to develop emotionally and socially. The book…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Book

Playwork Theory and Practice

This book brings together theoretical perspectives and practical advice to improve playwork practice. There are chapters on the role of adventure playgrounds; the challenge of starting a playwork section in a local authority; and the value of networking.
  • Publication year: 2003
  • Content Type: Book

Child Poverty in the Developing World

This short report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in all the developing regions of the world. It represents a summary of a much larger research report on child poverty and child rights funded by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Report

The Ecology of Human Development – Experiments by Nature and Design

In this book, Bronfenbrenner presents a theoretical perspective for ecological research on human development that differs in many ways from Barker’s orientation. Three research paradigms are presented: studies of ecological transition, transforming experiments. and studies of contrasting environments. An important aspect of this book is Bronfenbrenner’s critique of the laboratory as a context for observing…
  • Publication year: 1979
  • Content Type: Book

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