The Brain And Play
Play has huge ramifications for a child’s emotions, movement, cognition,
socialisation and language. Studies have shown that play based programs
for pre school children have positive effects on self esteem,
motivation, socialisation and cognitive development.
Play can destroy antagonism and defensiveness amongst pupils. It is the
process by which the person obtains pleasure with no likelihood of an
external pleasure. It is important that children feel this with
play because it has been shown that this has a positive affect on learning
later on. These illuminations come from understanding things - it can be an
extremely pleasurable experience, indeed Chiesa coined the phrase an,
"intellectual orgasm." Children as early as possible can come to realise
how fulfilling education and learning can be.
Nurseries are often extremely colourful, with lots of toys and gadgets.
This is in order to try and stimulate children cognitively. Research has
show that this is not very successful. Obviously the extreme absence of
these things is not a good idea, however this enriching overload as yet
has not
been proved to facilitate brain development. Research has suggested that
the more the child has social and emotional experiences at an earlier age
the more beneficial this is for brain development. Poor and damaging
relationships have an adverse affect on brain development – examples
include scapegoating the child, not responding to the child’s
conversations and not playing with the child.
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