Importance of Childhood Playtime

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Recess may be one of many different ways that children develop meaningful social interaction. Through playful participation with their peers, children learn how to talk, interact with others, and in turn, begin to form their social world. This observation looks at “Playtime Peer Relations” and how children participate in, and form, their own everyday social worlds. Piaget and Vygotsky assert that, through interaction with their environment, a child will construct meaning, and, as a result, development will occur. Children can express their ideas, and feelings through play, and in turn, they gain knowledge and continue the development of their language. In chapter 13 of the textbook, social structures are defined as “complex organizations of relationships between individuals”. Children’s’ social structures can be divided into two categories’, “the degree of dominance”, and the degree of popularity”. Based on my observation, the young Asian male could be placed under the category of a dominant child. He clearly controlled resources (e.g., the red ball) and did not seem willing to share...

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