Play A Window Into Cognitive and Social-Emotional...

Play: a window into cognitive and social-emotional development. Using flavell, miller, and miller’s discussion of representations and concepts. Young children create mental representations of event knowledge as a tool to understand the world. When these are generalized and abstracted they become scripts. This is adaptive for them because it helps predict future occurrences, anticipate subsequent actions, and participate with others. It provides stability to their world. It is the foundation of shared social information necessary for successful social interactions, within a specific culture. Increases in complexity and ability to accommodate variations are marks of development. Narrative thinking and storytelling, also using†¦show more content†¦Play has always been central to the developmental-interaction approach as a mode for learning. The focus has shifted over time, however. Initially, with influences from Dewey, pretending was seen as a central pathway of intellectual development. It was how concepts were defined and built up, and meanings became organized into coherent wholes, including scripts. The child was seen as an active explorer/experimenter with needs, interests, and capabilities. The educators constructed the environment and curriculum accordingly. Learning was seen as a process of understanding the world and acquiring capabilities to become an effective, productive membership of society in a context meaningful to the child. Play, thought of as spontaneous, was maximized through scaffolding. The educator selected and arranged materials, planned experiences, and offered contextual framing all with space for free development. Pretend play and blocks were key mediums of expression. They believed this dynamic process to stimulate growth and to integrate the entire organism in a way no other could. Individuals were members of a group, and group life was fostered through cooperative learning. They drew on real life expe riences for play, personalizing them for meaningful engagement, emotionally and intellectually. Interpersonal collaboration and negotiation were used to shape identities. Later, psychological theory began to influence their understanding and use of play,Show MoreRelatedLanguage Development And A Child s Understanding Of The External World880 Words   |  4 PagesPlay Alonte’ engaged in dialogue with himself when engaging in imaginative play. He gave a voice to his mom block and baby block in the observation. His shows he has symbolic play. He is using functional, socio-dramatic play and constructive play with objects according to Smilansky. He did all these when playing with the blocks and acting out real life roles while enjoying his play. His organization of play according to Parten is solitary and parallel. 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