Blog Outline

While on my last practicum I wrote a significant incident related to rough and tumble play with a group of children in an early childhood setting. The topic uncovered many differing perspectives among the teachers and raised the issue whether or not this type of play was acceptable in an early childhood environment. This got me very intrigued into why such extremes existed. During this 'rough play' I was incredibly impressed at how the children used this play to extend their learning and explore aspects of their daily lives with such care and order and in a sense they showed great maturity. This got me thinking are we disadvantaging  our children by not allowing them the chance to experiment and utilise this type of play in early childhood? Therefore I have chosen the topic of ‘rough play’ in early childhood education to research further, to see how this topic relates to theory, philosophies,  how a teachers role impacts this play, and the differing world views it holds in early childhood education.