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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 177-182Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721416645512
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cognitive development; guided play; education; early childhood
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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 avoids this false dichotomy: guided play. Guided play takes advantage of children's natural abilities to learn through play by allowing them to express their autonomy within a prepared environment and with adult scaffolding. We provide examples of how guided-play situations have been implemented in past work, as well as evidence that guided play is successful for education across a range of contentperhaps even more successful than other pedagogical approaches.
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