This document discusses the importance of play for child development. It defines play and explains that play is essential for education as children learn through play. It outlines that play enables children to explore their world, develop social and cultural understandings, express thoughts and feelings, and meet and solve problems. The document then discusses how play supports cognitive development, language and literacy development, social development, emotional development, physical development, creativity and imagination. It provides examples for each type of development. Overall, the document emphasizes that play is critically important for children's learning and development across multiple domains.

1. Noven Tungala
BEEd – ECEd
PSED 5: Personal and Social Development

2. 
 Play is also an essential part of their education
because while they are playing they are learning

3. Definitions of Play
 sport or other recreation
 To occupy oneself in amusement,
 To act
 To pretend to be
 To use or manipulate
Source: www.thefreedictionary.com/play

4. Why Is Play Important?
their world
 Enables children to explore
 Develops social and cultural understandings
 Helps children express their thoughts and feelings
 Provides opportunities to meet and solve problems
 Develops language and literacy skills and concepts.

5. Cognitive
Creativity & Language &
Imagination Literacy
PLAY
Physical Social
Emotional

6. Cognitive Development

 Concrete learning and problem solving through play
enhances higher thinking skills

7. Language and Literacy
Development

 Communication
 Verbal interaction
 Play with language
 Experienced with reading and writing

8. Social Development

 Negotiating roles, appreciating feeling of others, gain
access to ongoing play
 Respond to peer’s feelings, waiting for turn, sharing
materials and experiences
 Experiment with roles of people
 Experience others point of view

9. Emotional Development

 Simplifying events by
creating an imaginary
character or setting to
match their emotional
state.

10. Emotional Development

 Compensating for
situations by adding
forbidden acts to
pretend play.

11. Emotional Development

 Liquidating experiences
when children
repeatedly enact
unpleasant or
frightening experiences
to gain control over the
resulting emotions.

12. Emotional Development

 Anticipating behaviors
and events by
pretending that
another character, real
or imaginary, commits
the act and suffers the
consequences when
children are concerned
with the consequences
of disobeying an adult
often.

13. Physical Development

 Fine and gross motor development
 Body awareness

14. Creativity and
Imagination

 Invent ideas and use imagination in risk from
environment
 Using imaginations in play they are more creative,
perform better at schools tasks, and develop a
problem-solving approach to learning.

15. They learn to discover, explore,
and challenge the world
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18. Sources:
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 Isenberg, J. and Jalongo, M., Creative Expression and
Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum, New York:
Macmillian Publishing, pg 35-38
 http://www.originalplay.com/develop.htm
 http://www.learningchild.com.au/ccd/play

19. Noven Tungala
BEEd – ECEd
PSED 5: Personal and Social Development