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STUDENT NAME: FENASI KERIM
STUDENT NO: 31371
NAME OF MARKER: PAM SHEPHARD
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 6 MAY 2012
ASSIGNMENT NO: 7 NO. OF WORDS: 2172
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Name: FENASI KERIM
Date: 6 MAY 2012
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| | |Explain why play is important to the holistic development of the young child. Explain how and why children’s play changes over the first six years of life. | |Include examples to support your explanation. | |Give a definition of play using theoretical perspectives. (15) | |Outline characteristics and types of play. (25) | | | |Explain how play facilitates and is impacted by the maturation of children’s developing physical, intellectual, linguistic, emotional and social skills during| |the first six years of life. (25) | | | |Link this maturational development to the child’s ability to engage in more complex, and more social play, considering children with special education needs. | |(10) | | | | |
There is not any straight definition of the word “play”. However, “play” can be defined as “child’s way of expressing himself/herself”. Through this essay, I am not only going to deliberate the meaning of “play”, but also deliberate why play is important for the child’s development.
Briefly, it can be said that there are lots of reasons that bring about the importance of “play”. Play can help child to increase his/her creativity, intellectuality,...