CLD 111 Lecture 2: CLD111 Week 2 - Understanding the Important of the Environment
14 Mar 2017
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The environment we are in affects our mood, ability to form relationships, ability to learn, and even our health. (creating environments for learning) The early childhood environment is especially critical because: young children are in the process of rapid brain development, they spend many hours in the early childhood environment. Play allows children to practice important cognitive and social skills through enjoyable experiences, whereas work requires more responsibility and self-learning. Frobel advocated for play-focused programming in both indoor and outdoor environments. Play and work are different: work has a defined intent and prescribed outcome, play is a self-chosen activity rather than prescribed, play is a process rather than a prescribed outcome or product. Three internal motivators that influence play: curiosity, desire to show what he/she knows and what she/he is able to do, strive towards a common goal with others, focuses on means not ends (process rather than product)
