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Telephone and face-to-face responses assessed children’s daily activities, beliefs, attitudes toward experiential learning, and concerns about safety and health, including use of electronic media. 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Singer, Jerome L. Singer, Heidi D’Agostino, and Raeka DeLong  \nThis article is based on a study of the role of play and experiential-learning activities beyond formal schooling in sixteen nations. The study, supported by Unilever PLC, gathered information from the mothers of twenty-four hundred children in countries in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia who described and rated their children’s daily activities in telephone interviews or faceto-face conversations. They answered questions about their beliefs and attitudes concerning experiential learning, about their worries for the safety and health of their children, and about the general values of their children’s various pastimes, includingthe use of electronic media. The study concerned children of comparable socioeconomic status in each country and looked at equal numbers of boys and girls and an equal distribution of children’s ages ranging from one to twelve. The study’s findings indicate surprising similarities of children’s play in all nations. Themothers interviewed agreed, for example, that a lack of free-play and experientiallearning opportunities was eroding childhood. The study indicates that children’s major free-time activity is watching television. In analyzing the data collected in the study, the authors discuss detailed cross-national comparisons and differences in play activities by degrees of industrial development.  \nIntroduction  \nHow do young children spend their leisure time? Although there have been surveys conducted exploring the nature of children’s pastimes (Clements 2004; Gryfe 2005; LEGO Learning Institute 2002, 2003a, 2003b), none to our knowledge encompasses both so large a number of participants and such diverse nations as does ours. We surveyed mothers in sixteen countries using telephone or face-to-face interviews to determine how their children spent their time when  \n© 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois  \nthey were not attending school or daycare. The study focused on children agedone to twelve. We chose mothers for interviews according to their availability and to their familiarity with their children’s daily activities. The participating mothers were young enough to recall their own childhood play experiencesand to contrast them with those of their children.  \nThe study included children in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam. For analysis, we later grouped the countries by degree of economic development and analyzed differences and similarities in children’s leisure activities and in mothers’ observations, attitudes, and values. Given the variety in culture, customs, languages, and religions, we expected to find differences in how children spent their free time when not in school, and in the attitudes of mothers about their children’s experiences.  \nCountries such as France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have much longer histories of industrialization and more advanced educational opportunities, especially in the sciences than, for example, Morocco, Pakistan, Thailand, or Vietnam. However, one of the implications of expanding globalization, especially in the use of electronic media, maybe the increase of similarities in information and entertainment sources for children, and a possible result is more homogenization of children’s activities and parents’ attitudes.  \nAn important way for a child to confront, to understand, and to form new information into a concept is to “learn by doing.” This method or process of learning can also be interpreted as experiential learning. In contrast to the formal didactic atmosphere of most classrooms and home teaching by parents using drill cards and exercises, experiential learning generally takes place with limited adult g","cbCaigHI6bSE6SO4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigHI6bSE6SO4","pdf",673671,"English","# Introduction\n## Study scope and method\n## Experiential learning and play\n## Decline in spontaneous play and influencing factors\n## Policy and academic emphasis","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of the sixteen-nation study on children’s pastimes?\",\"answer\":\"It examines the role of play and experiential-learning activities beyond formal schooling, assessing daily activities, attitudes, and values reported by mothers in each country.\"},{\"question\":\"How were participants selected and how was data collected?\",\"answer\":\"Mothers were interviewed by telephone or face-to-face. Mothers reported and rated children’s daily activities for children aged one to twelve who were not attending school or daycare.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the study find about children’s free-play across countries?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests erosion of childhood due to fewer free-play and experiential-learning opportunities, and indicates that watching television is a major children’s free-time activity.\"}]","Children’s Pastimes and Play in Sixteen Nations - Is Free-Play Declining? | PDF",1792072621,76]