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Article
Creating a Natural Playground that Children Love
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 17, no. 3
Date: Mar 2009
Pages: 20–21
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Choose Safe Play Environments for Your Child
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 17, no. 3
Date: Mar 2009
Pages: 19
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Abstract/Notes: meeting parents and observing homes of your child's friends
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Family Activity: Play Clay
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 17, no. 2
Date: 2009
Pages: 25
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Counting or Playing?
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 17, no. 3
Date: Mar 2009
Pages: 14–15
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Early Day Games: Child's Play - Adult's Work
Publication: Rawhide Press, vol. 12, no. 11
Date: Oct 1981
Pages: 14
Americas, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Montessori schools, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0300-6328
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Play in the Nursery School
Available from: Internet Archive
Publication: New Era in Home and School, vol. 18, no. 7+8
Date: Jul-Aug 1937
Pages: 188-192
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Language: English
ISSN: 0028-5048
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Book Reviews: Thinking is Child's Play [by] Evelyn Sharp; Schools Without Failure [by] Dr. William Glasser
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1965-1973), vol. 6, no. 1
Date: Summer 1970
Pages: 38-40
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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Liberty and Play for Baby
Available from: Internet Archive
Publication: The Western Comrade, vol. 5, no. 1
Date: May 1917
Pages: 19
Americas, Llano del Rio Colony, Montessori method of education, North America, North America, Prudence Stokes Brown - Biographic sources, United States of America
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Language: English
Article
Why Do the Children (Pretend) Play?
Available from: Cell Press (Elsevier)
Publication: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 21, no. 11
Date: Nov 2017
Pages: 826-834
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Abstract/Notes: The study of play in both animals and humans is flourishing. The purpose of human pretend play is not known. By analogy to play fighting in animals, evidence is presented suggesting that pretend play might improve sensitivity to social signals and emotion regulation in humans. Pretend play appears to be an evolved behavior because it is universal and appears on a set schedule. However, no specific functions have been determined for pretend play and empirical tests for its functions in humans are elusive. Yet animal play fighting can serve as an analog, as both activities involve as-if, metacommunicative signaling and symbolism. In the rat and some other animals, adaptive functions of play fighting include assisting social behavior and emotion regulation. Research is presented suggesting that pretend play might serve similar functions for humans.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.08.001
ISSN: 1364-6613, 1879-307X
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Beobachtungen zum Spiel- und Sprachverhalten bei Jungen mit Fragilem-X-Syndrom im frühen Kindesalter [Observations on play and speech behavior in boys with Fragile X syndrome in early childhood]
Available from: Hogrefe
Publication: Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, vol. 27, no. 3
Date: 1999
Pages: 175-181
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Abstract/Notes: Zusammenfassung: Jungen mit Fragilem-X-Syndrom weisen im Schul- und Jugendalter charakteristische Merkmale des körperlichen Erscheinungsbildes, der Entwicklung und des Verhaltens auf. Es werden vorläufige Beobachtungen an zehn Jungen im frühen Kindesalter mitgeteilt. Im Vergleich zu den Befunden bei älteren Kindern sind schwere kognitive Behinderungen und kommunikative Auffälligkeiten seltener. Im Spielverhalten in einer Montessori-Übungssituation zeigen Jungen mit dieser genetischen Besonderheit sehr wohl die Fähigkeit zu gezieltem und kooperativem Spiel, aber weniger Ausdauer und Selbstorganisation bei zielgerichteten Tätigkeiten. Die Unterschiede sind signifikant im Vergleich zu nicht-behinderten Kindern bzw. Kindern gleichen Behinderungsgrades, aber anderer Behinderungsursache und als Merkmale des Verhaltensphänotyps bei Jungen mit fragilem-X-Syndrom zu verstehen. [Summary:Boys with Fragile X syndrome show characteristic features of physical appearance, development and behavior in school and adolescence. Preliminary observations on ten boys in early childhood are reported. Compared to the findings in older children, severe cognitive disabilities and communicative abnormalities are less common. In play behavior in a Montessori exercise situation, boys with this genetic peculiarity do show the ability for targeted and cooperative play, but less perseverance and self-organization in targeted activities. The differences are significant compared to non-disabled children or children of the same degree of disability, Play and communicative behavior in young boys with fragile-X syndrome Summary: Reports on development and behavior in boys with fragile-X syndrome support the idea of a characteristic behavioral phenotype in this special population. Preliminary results are presented for 10 boys with fragile-X syndrome in early childhood. Severe mental handicaps and communicative abnormalities are observed less frequently than was expected on the basis of results reported for school-age children or adults. Boys with fragile-X syndrome show goal-directed and cooperative play behaviors in a Montessori play session, but less persistence and organization than children with normal development or a mental handicap of heterogeneous origin. Results confirmed these behavioral differences as characteristic aspects of a "behavioral phenotype" in children who already in early childhood have fragile-X syndrome.]
Language: German
DOI: 10.1024//1422-4917.27.3.175
ISSN: 1422-4917