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Смернице за друштвену подршку дечјој игри
Guidelines for social support to child play

Author(s): Nevena Mitranić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Педагошко друштво Србије
Keywords: child play; educational policy; social support to play;

Summary/Abstract: Play is a precious aspect of living and irreplaceable importance for not only child wellbeing and development but for adults and communities, too. Complex current living conditions often minimize the importance of child play and it becomes even more necessary that educational policies support it. The subject of the research is based on the role child play has in educational policy and the aim is formulation of measures and actions which can support child play in educational policy. We examined measures and actions of official educational policies and nongovernment organizations of the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Republic of Serbia. The results show that the problem is deeper than current nonexistence of systemic support to play in Serbia and open the question on which paradigm official educational policy in Serbia approaches to education, and the question of how to bring to awareness the importance of play in order to support it. Relaying on the frameworks of play support policy in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland we suggest some guidelines for social support of child play which might prove sensible and feasible in Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 65/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 411-425
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian