Child Led Play Theory. Bruner like vygotsky emphasized the social nature of learning citing that other people should help a child develop skills through the process of scaffolding. A child led play scenario should allow a child to control the direction and narrative of their play experiences.
The 5 key features. In both cases children should be actively engaged and have fun whilst participating. Jean piaget was a highly influential swiss biologist and psychologist who developed a controversial model of child development and learning jean piaget theory of play based on careful observations of his own three children.
Both child led play and guided play have a fundamental role in children s development.
According to dewey play is a subconscious activity that helps an individual develop both mentally and socially. According to freud s psychosexual theory child development occurs in a series of stages focused on different pleasure areas of the body. The sessions are carefully planned led by trained forest school practitioners and take place outside the classroom in all weathers in local forests creeks meadows mountains or shorelines. In some cases it extends to kids being in control of how long they spend on a particular lesson and the methods and materials used for study.
