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Peer reviewedBagley, Donna M.; Klass, Patricia H. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1997
Documented differences in the quality of play in thematic and housekeeping organizational patterns of the sociodramatic play center in a preschool classroom. Found the thematic organization resulted in higher quality sociodramatic play in which the children enacted more roles outside the home, utilized more aspects of their roles, demonstrated…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Dramatic Play, Learning Centers (Classroom), Preschool Children
Download full textBagley, Donna M.; Klass, Patricia H. – 1994
This study compared the quality of preschool children's sociodramatic play in classrooms that used centers for housekeeping role play with those that used centers for various other types of role play. Classroom play sessions in the preschool were videotaped biweekly over the course of the 1992-1993 academic year. These videotapes were then…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Dramatic Play, Imagination, Interaction
