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Veraksa, ?leksander; Bukhalenkova, Daria; Smirnova, ?lena – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2020
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the main components of role play, according to Vygotsky (object substitution, idea of play, play interaction), and executive functions (working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, planning) in preschool age. The study involved 56 children, 5 to 6 years old (29 boys and 27…
Descriptors: Correlation, Role Playing, Play, Preschool Children
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Vinogradova, Irina A.; Ivanova, Elena V.; Savenkova, Tatiana D.; Tsaplina, Olga V. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
Relevance of the research: This is determined by an obligation to search for opportunities that can potentially make use of play activities observed during the development of play competencies in pre-school children. The purpose of the study: Its purpose is to identify the features of game playing competencies at pre-school age, to determine the…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Child Development, Skill Development
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Bodrova, Elena – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
The article focuses on the Vygotskian approach to high quality early childhood education in light of the challenges facing early childhood educators in Russia and in the West. One of these challenges is the constant pressure to start teaching academic skills at a progressively younger age at the expense of traditional early childhood activities.…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries