Erica+Richards

Perspective of: Canada
Learning Knowledge Centre || Play enhances every aspect of children’s development and learning. It is children’s window to the world.United Nations view"play" as a child's right. But a Canadian child's physical and social environments has changed. Long, uninterrupted blocks of time, whether indoors or outdoors is rare. || Play nourishes every aspect of children’s development—it forms the foundation of intellectual, social, physical, and emotional skills necessary for success in school and in life. Play “paves the way for learning". We must preserve some opportunity for children to play for their own purposes and create the conditions necessary for children to learn from play. ||
 * Frame Element || Information gathered: ||
 * < Characters || Canada and the Early Childhood
 * Setting || Canada 2006 ||
 * Initiating Event || Changing nature's of children's play ||
 * Internal Response ||< Is play essential for optimal development ?
 * < Goal ||< Analyzing the effect of structured vs unstructured time for children and how it encourages development ||
 * < Consequence || Canadians believe that the processes of play and learning stimulate one another in early childhood—there are dimensions of learning in play and dimensions of play in learning.
 * < Resolution ||< Options for play will be a practice of the Canadian culture ||

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unstructured play site:ca