Research and Policy on Children's Play

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Meanings of play among children (2013, background): “Pellegrini (2009) cautioned researchers about labeling children’s general social behaviors as play.”
Rough and tumble play quality: theoretical foundations for a new measure of father–child interaction (2013, background): “In these age groups, RTP among peers is recognised as contributing to children’s social skill development and ability to work together in groups (Pellegrini, 2009).”
‘Eyes on where children play’: a retrospective study of active free play (2015, background): “Reliance on adult-supervised activities may reduce children’s opportunities to engage in active free and other forms of play, thus restricting their opportunities to gain a range of developmental benefits (Piaget 2007; Pellegrini 2009; Wood 2009).”
Playing around in school: Implications for learning and educational policy. (2010, background): “…play researchers generally agree that play activities are fun, voluntary, flexible, involve active engagement, have no extrinsic goals, involve active engagement of the child, and often contain an element of make-believe (Johnson, Christie, & Yawkey, 1999; Pellegrini, 2009; Sutton-Smith, 2001).”