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This module seeks to enhance students' understanding of children's play and to support them to engage with diverse perspectives and approaches. It provides a theoretical and practice foundation for implementing a play-based curriculum in the early years. A critical awareness of the complex relationship between play and well-being, identity and belonging, communicating and exploring and thinking (Aistear 2009) will facilitate a reflective approach to play pedagogy. Beginning with reflections on play experiences, the module moves to provide for the critical examination of theoretical, historical and cultural perspectives on play, followed by a detailed analysis of what children do in play in a cross section of settings and contexts. Finally, it builds the capacity of students to provide for, support, and assess children’s learning through play.
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