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Pre-service early childhood teachers’ perceptions of their playfulness and inquisitiveness

Frontiers in Education, 2023
Recognizing one’s own playfulness is important for early childhood education (ECE) teachers, who are responsible for organizing and implementing child-initiated pedagogy in ECE centers.
Tarja-Riitta Hurme, Signe Siklander, Marjaana Kangas, Anitta Melasalmi   +3 more
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Agentic playful pre-service teachers: positionings from teacher-initiated playful teacher to community-shared playful teacher

Frontiers in Education, 2023
Play and playfulness are understood as basic and vital elements of early childhood education (ECE), and together with playful pedagogies, they perform a central role in Finnish ECE.
Anitta Melasalmi, Signe Siklander, Marjaana Kangas, Tarja-Riitta Hurme   +3 more
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The PPSQ: assessing parental, child, and partner’s playfulness in the preschool and early school years

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionDevelopmental research has traditionally focused on parenting behaviors such as nurturance and care, due to a focus on mothers’ behaviors.
Jean-François Bureau, Khachadour Bandk, Audrey-Ann Deneault, Jessica Turgeon, Harshita Seal, Patricia Brosseau-Liard   +5 more
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Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399).
Kay Brauer, Tiziana Scherrer, René T. Proyer   +2 more
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir, Adrijana Visnjic‐Jevtic, Alison Clark   +3 more
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Adult playful individuals have more long- and short-term relationships

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021
Number of romantic/sexual relationships is suggested as a proxy of potential reproductive success. Cross-culturally, both sexes desire playful long-term mates and playfulness predicts relationship quality.
Yago Luksevicius de Moraes, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Caio Santos Alves da Silva, Jaroslava Varella Valentova   +3 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Playfulness from children’s perspectives: development and validation of the Children’s Playfulness Scale as a self-report instrument for children from 3 years of age

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Children’s playfulness refers to children’s enjoyment, motivation, and engagement in play and has been predominantly assessed from an adult perspective.
Isabelle Duss, Cornelia Rüdisüli, Corina Wustmann Seiler, Patricia Lannen   +3 more
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Testing associations between language use in descriptions of playfulness and age, gender, and self-reported playfulness in German-speaking adults

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Adult playfulness describes individual differences in (re)framing everyday situations as personally interesting, and/or entertaining, and/or intellectually stimulating. We aimed at extending initial evidence on the interconnectedness between language use
Kay Brauer, Rebekka Sendatzki, René T. Proyer   +2 more
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Designing for playful photography [PDF]

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2009
This paper highlights the concept of playful photography as an emerging and important area for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research, through bringing together three research projects investigating new ways of engaging with digital photography with theories related to playfulness and experience-centred design.
Petersen, Marianne Graves, Ljungblad, Sara, Håkansson, Maria   +2 more
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