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Soomin Kim; Deborah Norris; Jennifer Francois – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Pretend play provides enriched environments for multiple cognitive and social purposes. The quality of children's pretend play depends on the process, including children's back and forth proposals and responses about the play frames. Proposing and responding to play ideas with metacommunication use, leadership-followership interactions are…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Communication, Leadership Styles
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Iylia Dayana Shamsudin; M. Kadar; H. F. M. Rasdi; T. Brown; J. Bacotang; M. Dzainudin – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Pretend play is one of the most beneficial and complex forms of play that promotes a myriad of children's development. Children's engagement in pretend play can be influenced by their genders, age, material or toys available, and adults' support. Pretend play has been long studied globally, however, there is still a dearth of available information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Imagination, Child Development