...Abstract For children, as spiritual beings, play is the art of living—naturally flourishing from the harmonious interaction between spirit, body, and mind. Through play, the children’s physical, emotional, social, and cognitive skills are nurtured. These experiences combined with the unhurried...

... safety and durability to ensure a secure and enjoyable learning experience. The playful yet esthetically adaptable branding ensures the furniture fits seamlessly into different bedroom styles. The ideation stage involved exploring various concepts that transform seating into an interactive play tool...

...Abstract Play is important for children’s holistic learning and development. Numerous studies emphasize the need for a comprehensive approach to play in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centers and ECEC teacher education programs. However, ECEC teachers, as well as ECEC educators...

...Abstract Although children accept adults as co-players, early childhood education and care (ECEC) teacher educators and student-teachers often struggle to understand their role in children’s play. This study explores Playworld as a method in ECEC teacher education to help student-teachers become...

... something important that does not work, that is students who do not share the playfulness. The play-based learning activity, however, aims to be an inclusive space with easy access for students with different wants and needs, and the researcher (me) knows that the teacher (also me) had that in mind...

... structure or accountability. This approach to leadership recognizes that recentering is not merely an individual practice but a communal one rooted in mutual discovery, where the wisdom needed already exists within the group. By approaching leadership challenges with the playful exploration characteristic...

...Gay Games LGBTQ+ community sport desportification play ‘If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution’ is a quote usually attributed to anarchist feminist Emma Goldman. She didn’t say those exact words, but the sentiment was hers. As she wrote in her 1931 autobiography, she loved...

... of a tool designed for research with children and young people in foster care and (b) to reflect on the ethical questions that arise when conducting research with children from the child protection system. The Play&Talk Game Why? The game has three objectives: (a) to create a playful and safe...

...This reflective case study focuses on my children's narratives, play scenarios, drawings, which forms the base for reflective analysis of the main themes arising from these multimodal visual forms of learning experiences ( Binder & Kotsopoulos, 2011 ). The following section presents...

... be investigated by looking at three pillars: (1) shifting play patterns, (2) child Labour and (3) violence towards children are all issues that need to be addressed. Play has been one of the most important phenomena that people have created for themselves throughout history. Toys that have grown more common...

... and their language changes with the old terms and words typical for the traditional biotope sliding into oblivion, such as the words depicting specific fields, grazing land, a patch of woodland cleared and burnt-over for cultivation. Children's plays and games are changing and new models and materials appear...

... to improve his or her development ( Ginsburg, 2007 ; Yogman, Garner, Hutchinson, Hirsh-Pasek, & Golinkoff, 2018 ). This requires considering play as an integral childhood activity in the city which requires mobility. Thus, it becomes important to integrate ‘playful forms’ of children’s mobility, as play...

...EpicNameBro. 2015. Let’s play dark souls playlist, YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/KUqg8XtAHnc Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Williams, A. 2010. Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games, Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 2(1), 3–25. VaatiVidya. 2016–2019. Dark souls...

...Abstract Purpose This chapter investigates children’s play and social interactions in a multilingual preschool context where the lingua franca (common language) is English. This investigation follows the experiences of one child for whom English is a second language (L2). The analytic...

.... Followership schemas leadership development leadership schemas play storytelling the Transformers “Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians” ( Lattimore, 1961 ). Thus begins the first and greatest epic in Western...

... processes ( Richaud, 2013 ). Some suggestions for areas in which to incorporate these activities include, but are not limited to, the creative arts, literacy, and gross motor activities. Creative Arts Playful activities such as music, drawing, visual arts, construction, and dramatic role-playing...

... for and against the claim are briefly addressed, as a prelude to identifying and elucidating a set of factors relevant to a consideration of this alleged special obligation. The chapter considers understandings of sport, play and athleticism from an ethical perspective and examines their relationship...

...Sub-Questions The main question was divided in several sub-questions, the answers on which are able to give us the whole description of the modern child’s play and games. When scientists research children’s play, they also need to use appropriate methods and show the due respect to this part...

... for both social and academic success. Challenging behavior preschool inclusion play social-emotional development positive behavioral support Children who use challenging behaviors and have difficulty self-regulating are at risk for high rates of social rejection within the preschool years ( Malecki...