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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Purpose of Play

  • Unit Code

    CHN3130

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lucy Madeleine HOPKINS

Description

This unit examines the interrelationship between play and children’s development and identities by critically analysing theories of play and the application of those theories to early and middle childhood. The unit develops skills in planning and analysing a range of play experiences and environments that are developmentally appropriate, culturally contextualised and meaningful to the child.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN1130, CHN4117

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse a range of theories of play.
  2. Critically analyse the impact of social-cultural context on children's play.
  3. Analyse the inter-relationship between play and the development of the child in early and middle childhood.
  4. Critically review and interpret the current research on play and its application to practice.
  5. Discuss the role of human and physical environment in facilitating and guiding play in early and middle childhood.
  6. Design a range of developmentally appropriate play experiences that meet the individual needs of a child.

Unit Content

  1. Historical overview and theoretical viewpoints of play.
  2. Relationship between play, children’s development and identity formation in early and middle childhood within a range of social and cultural contexts.
  3. Observation and interpreting children’s play in relation to development, learning and identities in early and middle childhood.
  4. Interpreting children's play making use of current research.
  5. How human and physical environments facilitate and guide play.
  6. The role of the adult in the development of play.
  7. Designing developmentally, culturally and contextually appropriate play experiences.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest speakers from the field

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPlay activity35%
ParticipationParticipation15%
AssignmentPlay analysis50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPlay activity35%
ParticipationParticipation15%
AssignmentPlay analysis50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Fleer, M. (2017). Play in the early years (2nd ed., pp. vii, 276). Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/960195172

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Purpose of Play

  • Unit Code

    CHN3130

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lucy Madeleine HOPKINS

Description

This unit examines the interrelationship between play and children’s development and identities by critically analysing theories of play and the application of those theories to early and middle childhood. The unit develops skills in planning and analysing a range of play experiences and environments that are developmentally appropriate, culturally contextualised and meaningful to the child.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN1130, CHN4117

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse a range of theories of play.
  2. Critically analyse the impact of social-cultural context on children's play.
  3. Analyse the inter-relationship between play and the development of the child in early and middle childhood.
  4. Critically review and interpret the current research on play and its application to practice.
  5. Discuss the role of human and physical environment in facilitating and guiding play in early and middle childhood.
  6. Design a range of developmentally appropriate play experiences that meet the individual needs of a child.

Unit Content

  1. Historical overview and theoretical viewpoints of play.
  2. Relationship between play, children’s development and identity formation in early and middle childhood within a range of social and cultural contexts.
  3. Observation and interpreting children’s play in relation to development, learning and identities in early and middle childhood.
  4. Interpreting children's play making use of current research.
  5. How human and physical environments facilitate and guide play.
  6. The role of the adult in the development of play.
  7. Designing developmentally, culturally and contextually appropriate play experiences.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest speakers from the field

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPlay activity35%
ParticipationParticipation15%
AssignmentPlay analysis50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPlay activity35%
ParticipationParticipation15%
AssignmentPlay analysis50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Fleer, M. (2017). Play in the early years (2nd ed., pp. vii, 276). Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/960195172

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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