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Murphy, Colette; Doherty, Andrea; Kerr, Karen – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
Fifty years after publishing his seminal work on play and its role in child development, Vygotskian theory is still highly influential in education, and particularly in early years. This paper presents two examples of full integration of Vygotskian principles into schools in two very different settings. Both report improvements in learning and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Theories, Play