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Children at Play: Learning Gender in the Early Years
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Martin, Barbara – Trentham Books Ltd, 2011
This captivating book illuminates our understanding of how young children develop gender identities. A two year longitudinal research project on children's own understandings of gender casts new light on how 3 and 4 year old newcomers in early years classes learn rules for gendered behaviour from older children, in their imaginative and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Play, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education
Construction and Validation of the Play Rating Scale.
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
The Play Rating Scale was developed to observe young children's behaviors in four different areas of play: physical, block, manipulative, and dramatic. In each area, observations focus on frequency, ability, and creativity in communicating ideas; social levels of participation; and leadership capability. A total of 2,400 three-, four- and…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Play, Preschool Children
The Social Cognitive Ecology of Preschool Classrooms: Contextual Relations Revisited.
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Pellegrini, Anthony D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Explores the extent to which social cognitive aspects of preschool children's free play behaviors varied according to two classroom contextual variables: (1) presence in different learning centers and (2) number of children and adults in those centers. Results incdicated that children behaved differently according to these variables. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Classroom Environment, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education