ABSTRACT
Broadhead, P. (2009) ‘Conflict resolution and children’s behaviour: observing and understanding social and cooperative play in early years educational settings’,Early Years, 29 (2), 105-18.
This paper draws from continuing research into the growth of sociability and cooperation in young children across the three to six years age range.The research has underpinned the development of an observational tool, the Social Play Continuum (SPC), drawing on play observations of nursery children (aged three to four years) and reception class children (aged four to five years) in one school,with particular attention given to conflict and its interpretation.Broadhead considers stress in children’s lives and its potential impact on playful learning needs. (Based on article abstract)
Action, age, child-directed play, children’s play, conditions of stress, conflict resolution, cooperative play, effective pedagogy, friendship building, interaction, intervention, joint learning, nursery, observations, peer conflict, peers, playful activity, playful pedagogies, reception, skills, social, use of language
“Over time, the SPC was developed to illustrate children’s uses of language and action/interaction with peers as a progression along four domains – the Associative domain, the Social domain, the Highly Social domain and the Cooperative domain, in keeping with the inherent and implied progression of a personal ZPD [zone of proximal development] . . .
