Children’s perspectives on play

In this free course, Children's perspectives on play, you are asked to put yourself in the place of young children and to think about their view of play and their reasons for playing. When children have personal freedom to choose and make decisions about what and who they want to play with, as well as where they want to play, they are highly self-motivated and active in their engagements with everything around them. In this course you will think about how you listen to children’s perspectives, why it is important and also consider the choices children make about where they play and why.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Children’s perspectives on play
• 1 Children’s perspectives on play
• 1.1 What does play mean?
• 1.2 What are children’s play preferences?
• 1.3 Children’s experiences of the outdoors
• 1.4 A different approach to play
• 2 Elodie’s day
• 2 Elodie’s day
• 2.1 Views of play
• 2.2 Using facts, opinions or arguments
• 3 William and Megan
• 3 William and Megan
• 3.1 Home education and learning
• 4 Street play
• 4 Street play
• 4.1 Views on play and creativity
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements