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Direct linkRobertson, Natalie; Yim, Bonnie; Paatsch, Louise – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Dramatic play is a typical activity that provides many benefits for preschool children's learning and development. This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method study that examined the level of preschool children's involvement in dramatic play and the connection between this involvement and the quality of the classroom environment. The study…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Student Participation
Karabon, Anne – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The funds of knowledge framework promotes connecting community contexts with curriculum aimed to activate children's prior knowledge. Typically, teachers determine what knowledge sources harmonise best with their existing programming, potentially omitting particular resources that may not align. Young children, on the other hand, can act as agents…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Dramatic Play, Prior Learning, Cultural Literacy
Peer reviewedGoldstein, Howard; Cisar, Connie L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This study investigated the effects of teaching sociodramatic scripts on interactions among three triads, each containing two typical preschool children and one child with autistic characteristics. Results supported the inclusion of systematic training of scripts to enhance interaction among children with and without disabilities during…
Descriptors: Autism, Dramatic Play, Interaction, Interaction Process Analysis
Download full textBagley, Donna M.; Klass, Patricia H. – 1994
This study compared the quality of preschool children's sociodramatic play in classrooms that used centers for housekeeping role play with those that used centers for various other types of role play. Classroom play sessions in the preschool were videotaped biweekly over the course of the 1992-1993 academic year. These videotapes were then…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Dramatic Play, Imagination, Interaction
Peer reviewedKohler, Frank W.; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1990
An alternating individual and group-oriented reinforcement contingency did not generate consistent levels of supportive peer behaviors between two preschoolers with handicaps and their socially competent peers. Two socially competent children were then taught to deliver supportive prompts to their peers during dramatic play, increasing the…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Disabilities, Dramatic Play, Group Dynamics
Slade, Arietta, Ed.; Wolf, Dennie Palmer, Ed. – 1994
Based on the view that play is profoundly mutual and social, this book compiles chapters by distinguished psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, social workers, and developmental psychologists, who offer a rich, integrative view of the many dimensions of early play as it occurs among peers, between parent and child, and in the context of therapy.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Autism, Downs Syndrome, Dramatic Play
