How does the teacher in the video use pretend play to convey learning
How does the teacher in the video use pretend play to convey learning
IMPORTANT video for observation in this lab report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I363zaetPhc (the extract used to observe can be any part of the video, 5 minutes is the most ideal
length of time for the report, just randomly choose any 5 minutes for the observation. After the
report is completed, please state the time for the 5 minutes in the essay or in the email to me, thank
you.)
Observation Practical Report Guidance
The Observation Task Pretend play forms an important part of childhood and has a number of
functions, one of which might be that it aid learning and thus cognitive, social and emotional
development. Your practical task is to use your observations from the video of young children playing
and interacting with the teacher to assess what role pretend play might play in learning Therefore
your research question will be: How does the teacher use pretend play to convey learning?
The Report Include a title and abstract. Introduction
In the introduction you should include information about different ways that pretend play has been
studied and evidence of its importance for any aspect of learning and development. Include some
consideration of why some approaches might be more appropriate for use with young children than
others. There are references on the list provided which will help you with this. Your introduction
should lead up to the research question.
Method
This should be detailed enough to allow replication of the study. You can draw on references from
the list on observation methods to justify your approach. Begin with details of who you were
observing and under what circumstances. Explain and provide reasons for the observational research
approach you have used in this study: Was it theorytesting/exploratory? Structured/unstructured?
Participant/nonparticipant? Covert/overt? Labbased/naturalistic? Provide a stepbystep account of
what you did including for the observation, recording, development of codes and so on. Include
explanations where necessary – for example to say how your approach contributed to the validity
of your observations.
Results
Provide a summary of your observations perhaps with second cycle categories as subheadings and
selected examples of the data under each of the headings.
Discussion
Use this section to consider and explain how your results fit with claims about how young children
interact with their friends. Identify limitations of your study and the approach you have used and
suggest how this may limit your ability to come to a definite answer to the research question. Detail
how you could strengthen the evidence provided by the study if you were doing it again either by
amending the qualitative approach you have used or by extending it to include a more structured,
quantitative approach. Include References Appendices You may include full versions of longer
documents you used to carry out the study, for example, preobservation reflections,
‘transcript’ of the observation and coded data.
Word count limit is 1700
