A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence

By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff , L. Berk, D. Singer. 2008

414 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Angeline S. Lillard
2. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
3. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 
4. Matthew D. Lerner

In Education

1. Angeline S. Lillard
2. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 
3. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
4. Debbie Duijkers
5. Bert van Oers
6. Deena Skolnick Weisberg
7. Matthew D. Lerner
8. D. Nussbaumer

Citations in the corpus

• Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy (2013, background): “Although free play is notoriously hard to define (Burghardt, 2011), most scientists agree that it generally subsumes the following qualities: the activities are fun, voluntary, flexible, involve active engagement, have no extrinsic goals, involve active engagement of the child, and often have an ele”
• Playful Learning and Montessori Education. (2013, background): “Advocates of playful learning, however, view play as the opposite of didactic schoolwork involving sitting in desks and listening to instruction (Hirsh-Pasek et al. 2009).”
• Museums as avenues of learning for children: a decade of research (2016, neutral): “In particular, it ‘‘engages children in pleasurable and seemingly spontaneous activities that encourage exploration and learning’’ (Hirsh-Pasek et al. 2008, p. 27).”
• Teaching in a play-based curriculum: Theory, practice and evidence of developmental education for young children (2013, background): “…refuses the adult to take part in children’s play), as well as from teacher-driven approaches (that tend to separate playing from learning, and even tend to reduce the opportunities of play in the school context, see Wood and Atfield 2003, Zigler and Bishop-Josef 2006, Hirsh-Pasek et al. 2009).”
• The impact of pretend play on children's development: a review of the evidence. (2013, background): “Some scholars have claimed that pretend play improves, and even is crucial to the development of, self-regulation (Bergen, 2002; Bredekamp, 2004; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2009; Tomlinson, 2009).”