ECEC Value 3: Embracing play as the leading activity of development.
ECEC Value 3: Embracing play as the leading activity of development.
🛝This is not my opinion. It is one of the most well-supported findings in child development research. And yet play is disappearing from early childhood settings at exactly the moment children need it most, replaced by worksheets, scripted curricula, and academic pressure that has no basis in child development knowledge.
🎴Play is worth protecting.
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🧙🏿Play is not a break from learning. Play is how children learn.
⛹🏽♀️I have spent my career defending play. Not play as a reward. Not play as a transition activity. Child-led, self-directed, uninterrupted free play…the kind where children make the decisions, follow their curiosity, and engage with the world on their own terms.