Role Of Play In Child Development

1.0 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

1.1 Play

Play is a vital part of a child’s life. Outdoor play promotes opportunities for creativity, imagination, social contacts, and learned behavior. Play serves various purposes in a child’s development. Play helps developing values among children. According to Brown (2009) “play is the basis of all art, games, books, sports, movies, fashion, fun, and wonder – in short, the basis of what we think of as civilization. All kinds of play have a key role in children’s development. Through play children explore their environment and world.” “Young children learn the most important things not by being told but by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children and

(Spodek & Saracho, 1998).

 Play helping children to learn wait for turning, sharing ideas and materials, respond with their peer while playing. (Sapon-Shevin, et.al. 1998; Wheeler, 2004).

 Play provides opportunities to interacting others and learns to plays social roles in their home, school and community. ( Berk, 1998).

 Play helps to understand others working point of view and resolving conficts with others. (Smilansky & Shefatya, 1990; Spodek & Saracho, 1998).

1.2 Co-operation

The term cooperation word invent from Latin word ‘CO’ and ‘OPERARI’ that means co is ‘together’ and the operari is ‘to work’. In other words co-operation means ‘To work together’ or ‘joint work’. Thus co-operation is social and associative process and also a social interaction between two or more individual for the same purpose or a common

Cooperation as joint effort that is important in human life. Without cooperation it’s difficult to survive in society and in this world also.

Our History has proven that co-operation is necessary quality. Indians got freedom through cooperative efforts and other such examples signify the end result of co-operation. In modern time, growth in the field of science and technology, art and literature, agriculture and industry, transportation and communication, trade and commerce etc. would not have been possible in the absence of co-operation.

Human being cannot survive without cooperation and not able to live happy and joyful life. Cooperation is the foundation of society because human being not leads to solitary life. There is social, emotional and psychological requirement of cooperation.

Social harmony and assimilation depends upon cooperation. It is the co-operation which diminishes the reciprocal differences, mental and social conflicts and inspires people to render possible help to maintain solidarity and also concerning