Ljubljansko barje

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Language:	Slovenian
Year of publishing:	2011
Source:	Ljubljana
Typology:	2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:	UL PEF - Faculty of Education
Publisher:	[E. Laharnar]
UDC:	373.2.016:50(043.2)
COBISS:	8897097
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Secondary language:	English
Secondary title:	Ljubljansko barje - preschool children`s space for playing and learning
Secondary abstract:	Today, a growing number of children live in cities, which means they do not have a lot of opportunities to play in natural environment. Children play either in far from stimulating play areas located in shopping centers, or in specially designed playgrounds which make creative, symbolic, exploratory and investigative play impossible. The only kind of play this type of environment allows is repeating already learned moving and thinking patterns. A natural environment is very important for creative, symbolic, exploratory and investigative play in preschool children, as it offers a limitless abundance of experience in all areas of children’s perception; diverse natural materials they can use in their own ways and endow them with symbolic meanings, as well as the rich world of flora and fauna. The experience children get in a natural environment stimulates their integral development as it enables them to advance in cognitive, aesthetic, sensorial, motor, social and emotional areas. The purpose of my dissertation was to take children who spend their time in overcrowded play areas and offer them a natural environment – “Ljubljansko barje” - to stimulate creative play and exploratory learning. Based on observing their play, I combined the method of qualitative research with interviews to establish that children playing in natural environments develop more creative forms of play than those playing in a playroom or in a designed playground, because nature offers countless impulses, varying according to season, weather conditions and human and natural activities. Objects found in nature proved to be stimulating enough to enable creative, symbolic, exploratory and investigative play. While playing in a natural environment children showed no need for industrially manufactured toys. Through activities on the Ljubljana marshes children acquired knowledge and skills in the field of early science and also achieved goals in other curricular fields. Children were less aggressive in a natural environment than they were in indoor spaces and designed playgrounds. Playing in a natural environment and materials from that environment proved to be important elements for stimulating various activities in the playroom, bringing children closer to nature even while indoors.
Secondary keywords:	pre-school child;science education;activity method;predšolski otrok;naravoslovna vzgoja in izobraževanje;aktivna metoda;
File type:	application/pdf
Type (COBISS):	Undergraduate thesis
Thesis comment:	Univ. Ljubljana, Pedagoška fak., Predšolska vzgoja
Pages:	103 str.
Type (ePrints):	thesis
Title (ePrints):	Ljubljansko barje
ID:	8307986