Growing Through Play

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From building blocks and jungle gyms to organized sports and video games, this course will explore the nature of play and its contributions to our physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development from infancy through adulthood. In doing so, we will consider the many different ways in which we engage in both structured and unstructured play activities, as well as how the objects and people in our environment contribute to those activities. Throughout this course, we will explore a variety of developmental theories and research and you will be asked to apply those theories and the findings from that research to your own observations of play activities and modern day play environments and tools.