Promoting Enabling Play Environment in Early Childhood Education and Care

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Promote enabling play environment
The environment can have a high impact on Children’s learning, play as well as
development. It is vital for the children to feel comfortable to play freely and express themselves
in their environment.
Identify types of environment
The three main kinds of environment include:
• Built environment
• Natural environment
• Social environment
Physical environment: Location may be indoors or outdoors. It must be exciting and
welcoming to encourage children to play and explore. The environment must also be appropriate
to age as well as the stage of development. It should also contain accessible toys and sized
furniture to enable children to explore and play (Campbell et al. 2014 p.86). Lastly, the
environment should be diverse to encourage children to attempt different things and by varying
resources, layout etc. There will prevention of boredom.
Social aspect: An important child feels a sense of belonging in the environment since it
provides them self-confidence to make relationships as well as play. The environment is capable
of supporting emotional or social development only if it allows children to play as a group
(Richter et al. 2017 p. 105).
Cultural aspects: It should consider inclusion, equality and cultural diversity to stimulate
an individual sense of belonging. This can be done by use of display, books, materials that

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illustrate multiculturalism, and different languages and abilities. A sense of belonging will help
in developing confidence.
Personal attributes: The beliefs, experiences, and values of an individual can change the
feel of play environment. An individual need to be welcoming and friendly, have fun and a sense
of humor, be patient, confident, adaptable, creative, effective communicators as well as
dedicated. These will enable children to respond and hence participate for a mature adult (Feller
et al.2016 p.207).
Explain how the environments support play.
The environment plays an important role in supporting the needs of children’s
development and learning.
Enabling environment contains equipment and toys for children to play with; it also
offers room for them to play. Different children love to imagine, explore and invent. Any
environment that is safe can support play. The environment where children play needs to be
welcoming and positive for children to play freely. The environment should also be stimulating,
and it should not be too busy, as it will distract children while they are playing (Slot et al. 2015
p.72).
How to work collaboratively to provide enabling play environments in early year’s
settings
EYP and parents can work as a group to establish a suitable play environment for all the
children. The team can work in collaboration to change the environment’s layout to make it more
suitable for all the children that use it. The setting may also seek outside professionals with the
required skills to come in and help in redesigning the indoor and outdoor play environment to
make it more stimulating and exciting. Parents and practitioners may work together in creating a

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home corner that shows the diversity of the surrounding community. Parents, professionals, and
practitioners work together with the intention of meeting the needs of the children. The society
also plays essential role in children’s learning as well as development. Practitioners need to work
with different people, for example, working in collaboration with general practitioners, health
visitors, physiotherapists, social workers, as well as language and speech therapist. All these will
help support children as well as their families.
The role of the EYP in supporting children’s socialization within the play
environment
EYP performs different role in supporting socialization of children within the play
environment. They were involved in encouraging children to socialize in different ways. They
promote social development by encouraging the children to involve with others from time to
time. Practitioners also plan for activities that enable children to work together thereby
encouraging socialization.
Analyze strategies to support children to manage their behavior about others.
The child begins to discover how the social Universe works as from their birth. Exploring
as well as learning to manage behavior, feelings, responsibilities, and rights is a complex
process. Educator performs an essential role in assisting children to control their behavior.
Positive and respectful interactions with children may help them learn about independence to
become understanding citizens (Bradman et al. 2014 p.103).
Self- management assists children learn to manage their behavior because it enables them
to know what they should do. Teaching a child how to behave well can be a hard task for any
parents, but it is a process that brings great rewards. Classroom teachers and parents want
children to use suitable social interaction skills and play to complete tasks, classroom and home