The Alarming Disappearance of Play from Early Childhood Education

By A. Nicolopoulou. Human Development, 2010

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The Contributions of Explanation and Exploration to Children's Scientific Reasoning (2014, background): “Despite the often unstructured and unsystematic appearance of children’s explanations and exploration, a large literature supports the proposal that these behaviors facilitate learning (Amsterlaw & Wellman, 2006; Crowley & Siegler, 1999; Nicolopoulou, 2010; Rittle-Johnson, Saylor, & Swygert, 2007; S”
The Power of Outdoor Play and Play in Natural Environments (2016, background): “Opportunities for play, both indoors and outdoors, are shrinking as policymakers and funding agencies stress the teaching of academic skills through didactic methods, causing many early childhood experts to lament preschool accountability policies that discount the value of play in the learning proc”
ECE teachers’ views on play-based learning: a systematic review (2019, background): “In addition to having potentially detrimental consequences, not least for preschool children with special needs (Klem and Hagtvet 2018), this may leave little room for nuance (Nicolopoulou 2010).”