The value of play to the pre-school child

Abstract

In order to solve this problem in relation to recognised institutions of the Education Department I have observed two schools of the 2-5 year old group. One an organization claiming to be nothing but a "Play Centre" and the other one of our regularily constituted Kindergartens. To me any school or similar organization dealing with the 2-5 year old is concerned with three sets of people and with which play is intwined. First the teachers, who provide the children with a source of play, not only in the materials they provide, the security they represent, but also in their personality which may, provide imitative play in which the child introjects another ideal, and progresses toward maturity.