Document Type
Data Set
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
developmental outcomes, learning environment, literature review; play, STEM
Abstract
As play is diminishing and the need to prepare students to enter the STEM workforce is rising, we conducted a literature review to examine how play in STEM learning environments may address issues in STEM, and conversely, how STEM learning environments can be framed as a context for human development through play. Findings highlight the value of all types of play for development within STEM across a range of learning environments. Yet, the scholarship seems to point to adults as vital to the play STEM learning environment as they provide connections between play and STEM concepts, practices and processes.
Recommended Citation
Simpson, Amber and Fridrich, Monika, "Connecting Play to STEM Concepts, Practices and Processes: Review of Research on Play within STEM Learning Environments (publication in fourth edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education)" (2020). Mathematical Sciences Faculty Scholarship. 10.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/mathematics_fac/10