Learning through play has emerged as an important strategy to promote student
engagement, inclusion, and holistic skills development beyond the preschool years. Policy …

Defining play has plagued researchers and philosophers for years. From describing play as
an inaccessible concept due to its complexity, to providing checklists of features, the field …

In recent years, play-based learning (PBL) has attracted attention, debate and controversy
across different national contexts. There is no definitional consensus which may have …

Background A recent dialogue in the field of play, learn, and teach outdoors (referred to as
“PLaTO” hereafter) demonstrated the need for developing harmonized and consensus …

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the education sector, including kindergartens.
Kindergarten principals and teachers make extra effort to maintain their education …

Kindergarten teachers face the challenge of balancing traditional developmental
programming and contemporary academic standards. In classrooms following a play-based …

Since the early 2000s, there has been a shift towards recommending the use of play-based
learning in early education curricula across several different countries, including Canada …

Using a holistic support framework, this study investigated teachers' conceptions of effective
play-based learning development and how their perceptions of its effectiveness related to …

Kindergarten teachers face the challenge of integrating contemporary assessment practices
with play-based pedagogy. The current study addresses this challenge by presenting a …

Background: This study examined teacher educators' perceptions of play-based learning in
the context of university-based teacher education programmes in Palestine. Methods: Using …