ViPER project: to draw European knowledge together to support children's play

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

ViPER project: to draw European knowledge together to support children's play

Original language description

Less opportunity to play and physical inactivity are hypothesized to be a contributing factor in the development of a variety of diseases. Play is vital for children’s development and fundamental for a child. Experts on child&apos;s play from the United Kingdom created a project “Volunteers in playwork”, to return a child’s play to its roots. The emphasis is to promote freely chosen play, to promote natural need to be physically active, promote creativity, self-sufficiency, and responsibility of children at play. The educator has the role as the creator of a motivating play environment and provider of resources for the freely chosen play. After successful validation, the project has expanded to several European countries, including the Czech Republic. The paper introduces the basic structure and perspectives of training course. One of the chosen groups of participants was primary education teachers and educators working in school afternoon clubs or students of primary education. The primary education teachers strongly agreed that gathered knowledge about “playwork” and use of freely chosen play allowed them to use other tools to develop physical literacy in physical education lessons and during other activities with children.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Physical education in primary school

ISBN

978-88-6760-474-6

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

307-320

Number of pages of the book

502

Publisher name

Pensa MultiMedia Editore s.r.l.

Place of publication

Lecce

UT code for WoS chapter

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