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Peers, Props & Play: Complexity of Pretend Play and Early Academic Skills

Year: 2021, 2021

Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

Name(s): Creator (cre): Pascoe, Paige, Thesis advisor (ths): Im-Bolter, Nancie, Degree committee member (dgc): Eastabrook, Jennifer, Degree committee member (dgc): Agostino, Alba, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University

Abstract: <p>This study examined the relation between complexity of pretend play during preschool and early academic skills two years later. Preschool children (n =19), aged 3 years, were observed during self-directed free play, which was then coded for complexity of symbolic thought with respect to symbolic agent (ability to direct self or other's play) and symbolic substitution (abstractness… more

Full Text: Peers, Props & Play: Complexity of Pretend Play and Early Academic Skills A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, …