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Grant to research child’s play
Three professors at Northeastern University say there is much more to children’s play than dolls and dump trucks, and they have won a four-year $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to pursue that assertion.
The trio — Karin Lifter, Emanuel Mason, and Takuya Minami of the Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences — say their research shows that the way children play can provide critical insight into their distinctive methods of learning, which can lead to the development of more effective instructional strategies.
The grant will support continued work on a Developmental Play Assessment, originally constructed by Lifter, to create a tool for educators and practitioners to assess children’s play skills within the context of determining their broader development.
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