Play and Creativity

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Play and Creativity

• M. Nazmul Haq
• Professor, IER,
• University of Dhaka

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Write three activities of young children that are
most expected at school for their development
Brainstorm in your group and write them in a
flash card in bigger fonts
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Children grow steadily in size and temperament.
Psychological development occurs through
maturation and daily interaction with
environment
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When a child grows physical andpsychological
changes take place

• These changes are
• Physical growth Grow bigger
• Cognitive development Learn about object or
  count
• Motor development Manipulation, balance and
  movement
• Personal social development Shares with
  others
• Adaptive (non-verbal) development Gestures
• Communication and language development
  conversation with others

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Development brings change in the structure of
brain
At birth
At 3 months
At 3 years
At 14 years
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Development of a child is directly linked with
two aspects

• Proper nutrition
• Nutrition keeps the child healthy and free from
  diseases
• It can be obtained from daily meals and seasonal
  fruits
• Appropriate stimulation
• Makes the childs life potential for future
  success
• Stimulation can be obtained from home, school and
  community

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Stimulation

• Stimulation is the engagement of a child in
  various developmental activities
• It is the opportunity for a child to develop
  with
• Good physical and mental health
• Sound emotional state
• Socially stable environment
• Success in school and community
• Childs future largely depends on sufficient
  stimulation in the first five years of life

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Windows of Opportunity

• Opportunity of
• play
• Opportunity
• to be creative
• Exposure to
• art and music
• Opportunity to
• learn

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Opportunity of Play

• Play is as basic and as pervasive a natural
  phenomenon as sleep
• play shapes our brains, creates our competencies,
  and guides our emotions
• Play is most conducive to improve motor skills,
  learning ability, imagination and educational
  attainment in infancy and childhood

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Types of play

• Solitary play
• Onlooker play
• Parallel play
• Associative play
• Cooperative play

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Solitary play

• Where children play with toys by themselves,
  independently
• Not influenced by others
• Does not tend to approach others
• Solitary play helps a child to be thinker

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Onlooker play

• Where children observe others at play
• Frequently talk to the children and make
  suggestions but do not join
• Solitary and onlooker play are also known as
  nonsocial play (mostly occurs among 2-3 years
  olds)
• Onlooker play helps a child to be social

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Parallel play

• Where children play with toys similar to those of
  surrounding children
• But use toys in their own ways
• Do not have direct interaction with other
  children
• Parallel play develops the capacity of designing
  something new

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Associative play

• Where children interact and share toys
• But do not share group goals
• Sometime toy selection is independent
• Associative play enhances the communication skill

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Cooperative play

• When children interact to achieve common group
  goals and share things with others
• The child follows instruction of other child
• Observe division of labour with other
• Pretend to be a member of a family, animal,
  monster
• Parallel play, associative play and cooperative
  play are the types of social play
• Cooperative play develops sociability in children

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Teaching with play

• Devise some new ways to teach a subject
• Engage children in competition mode
• Help children to be involved in action to learn
  new things
• Allow children in free play between two classes
  or prior to any serious work

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Materials needed to be playful

• Paper
• Pencil /Pen
• Crayon
• Marker
• Cardboard
• Glue
• Adhesive tape
• Blue tag /Clay

• Wood blocks
• Building blocks
• Wood scrap/Sand
• Recycle materials
• Wood logs
• Jute/Cotton/Rug
• Thread/String/Wire
• Knife/Scissor

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Group Work Imagine a play for teaching

• Geography
• History
• Science
• Literature
• Culture

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Creativity

• It is the urge or capacity of a person to produce
  something new or novel
• Should it be a part of curriculum ?

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Characteristics of creativity

• Creative child is
• independent
• Self-confident
• Courageous
• Intuitive
• Optimistic and
• Able to take risk

• Creativity is not a gift but an ability that can
  be acquired and nurtured

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How to support creativity

• Never criticize any unproductive or naïve
  response
• Put problem with an expectation of something new
• Accept anything with flexibility and originality
  but give more credit to originality
• Give time and scope for incubation
• Finally show your interest in creativity

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Some methods to support creativity

• Instruction to be imaginative and creative
• Brainstorming
• Project work
• Discovery learning
• Role play
• Drawing/painting
• Music
• Mime

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Play and Creativity

• Play

• Creativity

• Play helps children to have fun and learn
• Play is essential to be perfect
• Play opens the door for future development

• Creativity provides children to grow mature and
  contributing
• Creativity encourages leadership to acquire
• Creativity is the key to excel

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If you want your children prosper Allow them
play and engage in creativity
Thank You
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Group work

• Divide into three groups and identify at least
  five topics of any subject of your interest.
  Develop appropriate play based lesson (i.e., how
  your would teach that subject with the help of
  play. Explain your teaching approach on a poster
  paper)