Child development

Qualitative Research on Children’s Play: A Review of Recent Literature

This book chapter is a review of the recent, English-language qualitative research on children’s play. It focuses on the place play has in children’s experience and giving sense to the world. Thus, it will leave aside the large and important body of research on the effect or outcomes (benefits and possible harmful consequences) of play…

Publication year: 2007
Content Type: Book

Children’s Play, Well-Being and Involvement: How Children Play Indoors and Outdoors in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Institutions

In this article, we report on a Norwegian study exploring the relationship between children’s play, well-being, and involvement, and identify how children play in indoor and outdoor environments at their early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution. In this quantitative study, structured video observations (960 two-minutes sequences) of 80 free play sessions (indoors and outdoors)…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Academic paper

Listen to Me: Protecting the Development of Young Children in Armed Conflict

Young children do experience violence, they do try to understand it, and they do remember it. We must pay attention to their reactions to these experiences. We must learn to comprehend the meaning of violence for young children especially when they lack critical language skills which help them to organize their perceptions and express their…

Publication year: 1998
Content Type: Report

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

Thematic Area: Child development

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