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Heikkilä, Mia – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This article aims to summarise research on this topic; analyse, reflect on and discuss earlier research on play and learning using a few empirical examples; and determine what constitutes an appropriate educational approach concerning war and weapon within an early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting. This is done by putting feminist…
Descriptors: Males, Weapons, Play, War
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Delaney, Katherine K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study examines how acceptable play was framed for a class of pre-Kindergarten children by their teacher and classroom aide. Using comic subjectivity theory [Zupancic, A. (2008). "The odd one in: On comedy." Cambridge: MIT Press], the author explores how children's playing at pretend violence (bad guy and pretend gun play) is…
Descriptors: Play, Violence, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers