Entries from Awkward Encounters tagged with 'child development'
The Importance of Stories
In the article, "Assessing children's oral storytelling in their first year of school" Riley and Burrell look at the important role that storytelling plays in the classroom. Some of the benefits of oral narration in the classroom were improved...
TED talks about Play
For my exploring the field entry, I would like to discuss the TED talk by Stuart Brown: Why Play is vital - no matter your age. To briefly give an overview of the video, Stuart Brown talks about the...
Playtime!
The article by Jerome Singer I read has a lot of important and interesting information about the benefits of imaginative play in early childhood. Singer looks at various aspects such as language acquisition, imagery, and the emotional benefits of...
The Benefits of an Imagination
While exploring the various blogs located on Sakai, I stumbled across an article that really grabbed my attention. What grabbed my attention was an article titled, "Unstructured Play" by Jonah Lehrer, which was prompted by an article by Melinda...
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