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‘This looks like sand, isn’t it University of Leeds.doc

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‘This looks like sand, isn’t it University of Leeds

Acknowledgements: The researcher would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) and express her gratitude to the participants of this study. Foremost, the author would like to thank Cathy Nutbrown and Peter Clough for their invaluable support, comments and suggestions for previous versions of this paper. Maria Stamatoglou School of Education, University of Sheffield ‘This looks like sand, isn’t it?’ Young children’s experiences of nursery play Looking at the play literature ‘The word ‘play’ conjures up images of laughter, enjoyment, indulgence and sharing’ (Sayeed and Guerin, 2000, p. 1). Young children’s play has been the focus of researchers from various disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, and education. Most play studies have taken place either at home or at an educational setting, for instance (Piaget, 1962; Vygotsky, 1978; Smith, 1994), and have been highly influential on how play is valued and viewed for young children’s development and learning. Equally, the role of the significant adults, i.e. parents/carers and early educators, in children’s early years play has been previously studied in great depth; see for example Bennett et al. (1997), Bruner (1980), Dunn and Wooding, (1977), Smilansky, (1968) amongst others. The centrality of play in early childhood education was stressed by the HMI report on the education of children under 5 (DES, 1989), which outlined the importance of designing a broad and balanced curriculum in which play featured strongly. During the 1990’s the place of play was somewhat marginalized according to Nutbrown (1998), but in the 2000 Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage, play is described as ‘a key way in which young children learn with enjoyment and challenge’ and the role of the adult is crucial in providing an effective support and a secure environment for children (DfEE / QCA, 2000; pp. 25-26). According to the literature, play is generally regarded as a pleasu