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Direct linkSoomin 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
Anthia Michaelides; Eleni Loizou – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Our theoretical framework is based on Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development focusing on adults' involvement in children's play and we argue that teachers' involvement is crucial in supporting children's play skills. Particularly, this study examines early childhood teachers' (ECTs) sociodramatic and imaginative play skills and their development…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Play, Teacher Role, Early Childhood Education
