%0 Journal Article %1 sandberg2003ptp %A Sandberg, A. %A Samuelsson, I.P. %D 2003 %I ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education %J Early Childhood Research & Practice %K childhood children play preschool teacher %N 1 %T Preschool Teachers' Play Experiences Then and Now. %U http://www.ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n1/sandberg.html %V 5 %X Many preschool teachers recognize the importance of play for children's development and learning and emphasize play in their classrooms. This paper explores how they remember their own childhood play and how they perceive children's play today. Twenty Swedish preschool teachers were interviewed regarding their views of play. Two characteristic perspectives were identified—the idealized and the pragmatic. Findings suggest that the idealized perspective was more common than the pragmatic among the preschool teachers interviewed. Two different themes from childhood stand out as significant in the comparison of play in the past to the role of play today: time for play and the effect of media on play.

@article{sandberg2003ptp, abstract = {Many preschool teachers recognize the importance of play for children's development and learning and emphasize play in their classrooms. This paper explores how they remember their own childhood play and how they perceive children's play today. Twenty Swedish preschool teachers were interviewed regarding their views of play. Two characteristic perspectives were identified—the idealized and the pragmatic. Findings suggest that the idealized perspective was more common than the pragmatic among the preschool teachers interviewed. Two different themes from childhood stand out as significant in the comparison of play in the past to the role of play today: time for play and the effect of media on play.}, added-at = {2007-04-26T20:25:28.000+0200}, author = {Sandberg, A. and Samuelsson, I.P.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fb0d95b9a18aed599f451bc60fa2aedd/rmosvold}, interhash = {d3b9cfdf1ff61946499708432c0e849b}, intrahash = {fb0d95b9a18aed599f451bc60fa2aedd}, journal = {Early Childhood Research \& Practice}, keywords = {childhood children play preschool teacher}, number = 1, publisher = {ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education}, timestamp = {2007-04-26T20:25:28.000+0200}, title = {Preschool Teachers' Play Experiences Then and Now.}, url = {http://www.ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n1/sandberg.html}, volume = 5, year = 2003 }