How Parents Fear of Play Affects Development
Assignment title:
Trial and evaluate one research method. Choose and pilot one method on someone you know.
Reflect on the experience paying particular attention to how you addressed ethical issues, difficulties encountered, and what you might do differently next time.
Assignment Title: How parent’s fear of play affects children’s cognitive development and how they play
Aims:
The aims of this pilot study are to;
• Question if fear affects the different ways children play, process and obtain information within cognitive development.
• See if parents fear can transmit onto the children
• Find out the difference between two children whose parents have opposite ideas of play
• Overall aim is to look at how children play and to see if fear affects how children play and process information in regards to playing for obtaining information about the Improvement the general understanding for the importance of fear within cognitive development
Background
Within this research study the researcher will look into the amount of fear a parent has of their child playing, and if it determines how much outdoor play a child has by observing children whose parents are fearful of play and those who aren’t, playing both individually and together in a group. Therefore, firstly, a good beginning to this research project is asking what do we mean by play? “All the things that children do purely for the joy of it are quite rightly called play” (Stallibrass 1974:12). Also Frost, J (2010) explains Plato believed natural play meant you would be a well-developed person, this includes tripping and falling off bicycles.
Kimrbo states “The fear of children playing outside is not completely rational” as play is an important part for children to develop as a person and to develop cognitive and social skills. There have been many studies of risk play, however not many have been developed into deeply exploring if parents fear of play can impact how the child will play. Play is an
Trial and evaluate one research method. Choose and pilot one method on someone you know.
Reflect on the experience paying particular attention to how you addressed ethical issues, difficulties encountered, and what you might do differently next time.
Assignment Title: How parent’s fear of play affects children’s cognitive development and how they play
Aims:
The aims of this pilot study are to;
• Question if fear affects the different ways children play, process and obtain information within cognitive development.
• See if parents fear can transmit onto the children
• Find out the difference between two children whose parents have opposite ideas of play
• Overall aim is to look at how children play and to see if fear affects how children play and process information in regards to playing for obtaining information about the Improvement the general understanding for the importance of fear within cognitive development
Background
Within this research study the researcher will look into the amount of fear a parent has of their child playing, and if it determines how much outdoor play a child has by observing children whose parents are fearful of play and those who aren’t, playing both individually and together in a group. Therefore, firstly, a good beginning to this research project is asking what do we mean by play? “All the things that children do purely for the joy of it are quite rightly called play” (Stallibrass 1974:12). Also Frost, J (2010) explains Plato believed natural play meant you would be a well-developed person, this includes tripping and falling off bicycles.
Kimrbo states “The fear of children playing outside is not completely rational” as play is an important part for children to develop as a person and to develop cognitive and social skills. There have been many studies of risk play, however not many have been developed into deeply exploring if parents fear of play can impact how the child will play. Play is an
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