Adults' behaviour in interactions with children is assumed to influence children's playfulness.
However, little is known about how the quality of teacher–child interaction in early childhood�…

Young children spend considerable time in educational settings, in which traditionally, their
primary occupation is play. A playful preschool environment has been related to better�…

This study examined the extent to which the quality of teacher-infant interactions varies
across play and routine care activities. In addition, the effects of the quantity of adult�…

Recognizing one's own playfulness is important for early childhood education (ECE)
teachers, who are responsible for organizing and implementing child-initiated pedagogy in�…

ABSTRACT In Hong Kong, play-based learning has been highlighted in the latest curriculum
guide in 2017. While adopting 'child-centredness' as the core value of kindergarten�…

ABSTRACT Research Findings: Playfulness is an important personality tendency with an
important role in the well-being, mental health, and various other aspects of an individual's�…

The purpose of this study was to determine if levels of teacher education and experience
would influence how teachers respond to children's play needs in a preschool classroom�…

There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and
care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and�…

Within early childhood education, play is central to teaching and learning but it is considered
difficult to define and traditionally definitions have been based on adult perceptions of the�…

Most research on children's play takes a context‐dependent, adult‐focused observational
approach to the measurement of play. The current two studies present the development and�…