PLAY What is play? Definition of play. From an early age‚ play is important to a child’s development and learning. It isn’t just physical. It can involve cognitive‚ imaginative‚ creative‚ emotional and social aspects. It is the main way most children express their impulse to explore‚ experiment and understand. Children of all ages play. (Dobson‚ 2004‚ p.8) This essay will describe the defining features of play‚ understanding of the roles and functions of play in early years. Play is not
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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the way in which two different authors portray femininity in their respective dramatic texts. The two works I am using are Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Medea by Euripides. I will be looking at how the way men and women are portrayed can affect the way we interpret the texts‚ and showing that femininity isn’t necessarily a trait restricted just to women. I believe that femininity reflects expected female behaviour. There are certain traits which
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Play is what children wants to do and what they choose to do when given the freedom‚ independence‚ time and space to determine their own behaviour. All children have a natural desire to play and will therefore play anywhere they are given the opportunity. Children’s play can be happy or sad‚ loud or quiet‚ calm or chaotic‚ creative or destructive‚ sociable or isolated and imaginative or real. Sometimes play can be risky‚ other times it will be boisterous and a lot of the time it will just seem plain
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refinement of fine motor skills; creative and constructive play are both particularly beneficial in this area‚ also play helps children to refine their motor skills when making toy figurines stand up etc. Play benefits children’s intellectual development as it helps then begin to understand important mathematical concepts such as number‚ matching‚ ordering‚ sorting‚ making and recognising pattern‚ adding and subtracting‚ and measuring. Role play helps children to explore aspects of their real life
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‘Measure for Measure’ initially appear to be simple however‚ as the play unfolds the audience discovers that they are anything but simple. In some ways the characters mirror the play‚ which is often categorised as a simple comedy but this would be to overlook the un-nerving sense of disquiet at the end of the play and the complex themes of justice‚ purity‚ human frailty that Shakespeare explores in the play. In fact‚ the term ‘problem play’ has become a widely accepted description for ‘Measure for Measure’
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fEATURE THE BENEFITS OF PLAY Play has positive implications for cognitive developmen Play stimulates children’s imagination‚ aids problem-solving and contribules 10 children’s creativity. The important role of exploratory play has been confirmed Both scholars and praditioners argue that by neuroscience. According to Mustard (20051‚ ploy-based learning‚ if ’properly ’play is pedagogy’; but‚ otthe same time‚ designed‚ is actually problem-based learning ... one of the best strotcgics
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Alfred Doolittle’s Lower Class Representation in Pygmalion Realist author George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion challenges England’s upper class to realize the pointlessness of their flamboyant lifestyle and pokes fun at this society. Shaw writes to expose the differences in the lifestyles of the social classes and how different characters react to their status. Shaw uses Alfred Doolittle and his social status to depict a character that freely accepts his status and his reaction to eventually moving up
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of both sexes have made major contributions to this area in literature but it remains surprising that male writers have been able to perceptively portray women above their previously subordinate positions in society. In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion‚ we see the main character‚ Eliza Doolittle transformed from an ill-mannered Cockney flower girl into a high society debutante with the help of some elocution lessons provided by Mr Henry Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics and financed by his well-travelled
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In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare‚ we are introduced to a controversial yet crucial character named Mercutio. However‚ in the original Shakespeare play and the modern film adaption of Romeo and Juliet by Luhrmann‚ the presentation of this character alters. Mercutio’s name derives from the word ‘mercurial’ which means eloquent‚ active sprightly and changeable‚ and Shakespeare purposely used this characters name as to present his character of this manner. In both the original play
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Play in Aistear and Síolta‚ the national curriculum and quality frameworks The research is so clear about the benefits of play that in Ireland we have established play as central to the early childhood curriculum. Both Aistear‚ the national curriculum framework from the National Council For Curriculum and Assessment‚ and Síolta‚ the national quality framework from the Dept. of Education‚ emphasise the importance of play in the home and in early education settings. Aistear tells us that engaging
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