This systematic review and meta‐analysis considered evidence of guided play compared to
direct instruction or free play to support children's learning and development. Interventions …

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 …

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New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it
enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research …

ABSTRACT Research Findings: Research has demonstrated the developmental and
educational benefits of play. Despite these benefits, teacher-directed academic instruction is …

Competing trends in early childhood education emphasize the need for strong curricular
approaches and for unfettered exploration. We propose an approach to early learning that …

The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

Pretend play has been claimed to be crucial to children's healthy development. Here we
examine evidence for this position versus 2 alternatives: Pretend play is 1 of many routes to …

Decades of research demonstrate that a strong curricular approach to preschool education
is important for later developmental outcomes. Although these findings have often been …

We conducted a systematic review of empirical studies aimed at exploring robot-mediated
activities to promote the development of computational thinking in preschoolers. In this …