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Direct linkScrafton, Eleanor; Whitington, Victoria – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Socio-dramatic play is preschool children's leading learning activity (Karpov 2005; Vygotsky 1978). Yet entering play often poses challenges (Corsaro 2003), particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children (Hruska 2007). At preschool four-year-old CALD children are both acquiring a new language, and learning new rules, social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Dramatic Play, Case Studies
Whitington, Victoria; Floyd, Irene – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Socio-dramatic play (SDP) creates a zone of proximal development in which optimum cognitive development occurs. To participate successfully in this kind of play children and their partners must create shared meaning, or what is referred to in the socio-cultural literature as intersubjectivity. Based on intersubjectivity and SDP, this study…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Kindergarten, Cognitive Development
