EDUP1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Big Questions, Critical Thinking, Edwin H. Land
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Imaginative play, talk, storying and literature in learning to be literate. Imagination: the ability to think of the possible not just the actual, it is the source of invention, novelty and flexibility in human thinking it greatly enhances national thought (kieran egan) Play: following our own ideas and interests, in our own way, and for our own reasons, play is serious work for children (carol fox) and for all of us. Why: how children make sense of their work, pursue their own ideas or interests. It is a human right however some children don"t have time in their day to play e. g. children engaging in child labour: not given enough time for developmental play. In play a child is always above his average age, above his daily behaviour; in play it is as though the child were trying to jump above the level of his normal behaviour, .
