In early years curriculums ‘play’ has an image problem

Travis Jones

By Travis Jones
Community contribution / December 2, 2016

The importance of play in learning is often understated in the curriculum. Amongst various highly politicised curriculums and competing subjects jostling for funding and limelight, the impact of well structured playful learning, and all of the holistic benefits that emanate from it, are being forgone.

This is even a problem in early childhood education in international schools, where a ‘schoolification’ of kindergartens is placing children ...

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