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Play Power! How play motivates
children’s academic and social development
with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek & Roberta Golinkoff
July 14, 2015 • 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Place TBA • Kona, Hawaiʻi Island
“Play is under siege!”
~ Ed Zigler
‘A‘ohe hana
nui ke alu ‘ia
No task is too big when done together by all.
~ Mary Kawena Pukui
Mahalo from the
MEd ECE Program to our
UH ECE sister program faculty
& community partners
In the last two decades children
have lost 8 hours of free play per
week and thousands of schools in
the United States have eliminated
recess to make time for more
academic study (Elkind, 2008).
Ironically, our children have not
profited from this extra “educational”
time, nor from the so-called educational toys.
Hirsh-Pasek and Golinkoff evaluate the evidence for the importance of
free play and playful learning as a catalyst for
developing 21st Century Skills. They argue that
play offers an important context for growing
child’s academic, social and physical wellbeing. Play and particularly guided play offers
a successful midway position between the
warring factions of playful and didactive
approaches. It is possible to have strong
curricular goals that are presented to children
within a playful pedagogy.
Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is the Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow
at Temple University and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, is the H. Rodney Sharp
Chair of the School of Education at the University of Delaware.
Want more? Join us for the whole ECE Summer
Institute! July 6-10, 2015 (+ on-line follow-up)
Credit • Graduate EDCS 656 (3 cr) $1650• Undergrad ITE 499 (3 cr) $1224
PDE3 • DOE Teachers • (3 cr.) $250
Non-Credit • $250 or CEU (2.5 cr) $300 • (10% discount on non-credit registration for
HAEYC, neighbor island & non-profit groups of 3 or more). Housing available at East
West Center for neighbor island participants. Limited rooms available.
Contact (808) 956-0337 or [email protected]
ECE Summer Institute 2015 • July 6 -10, 2015
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Opening Session: Play Power! How play motivates children’s academic and social development
Developing a deep understanding of the research on free and guided play as essential pedagogies
Research on connections between young children’s language and literacy development and play
as a pedagogy to address language and literacy (ELA) standards.
Research on connections between young children’s mathematics and spatial development and
play as a pedagogy to address STEM standards.
Play as a facilitator of learning how to learn (executive function). Working with communities to
create playful learning experiences.
Celebrated Authors!
Kathy & Roberta have
collaborated on many
publications including Celebrate
the Scribble, Play = Learning,
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards,
How Babies Talk, Becoming a Word
Learner, A Mandate for Playful
Learning in Preschool, The Origins of
Grammar and Action Meets Word.
The Master of Education in Early Childhood Education (MEd-ECE) is a 30-credit interdisciplinary
masters degree offered by the College of Education and the College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The program is designed to
develop leadership capacity in the field of early childhood education statewide and in the
Pacific Basin. Each year, we host national leaders who share their manaʻo at the ECE Summer
Institute and we collaborate with community partners and faculty at our sister campuses to
offer public lectures for Hawaiʻi’s ECE professional community.
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