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Adult guidance of this play in meaningful ways can unlock the transformative power of education. Lack of knowledge about guided play, however, often leads to children growing up without opportunities to learn through play. Considering this, the authors analyze findings from the pilot phases of Play Every Day, an intervention based in urban communities in India, Mexico, and South Africa. This program is designed to shift the perceptions of care givers about play and its relationship to child development and to allow them to guide children in learning through play.  \nThe authors describe the program’s intent to contribute to global knowledge of best practices for promoting playful learning. They discuss developing a global framework and contextualizing its delivery to empower care givers as ambassadors of learning through play in young children’s lives. Key words:  \nguided play; Play Every Day project; play in India; play in Mexico; play in South Africa; scaffolding play; Sesame Workshop  \nIt is well established that play is an integral component of earlychildhood development . Research has shown that playful learning helps foster the development of young children and lay the foundations for them to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners. Thus, play constitutes an important part ofachild’s daily routine, an often underused space in which valuable teaching and learning can take place (Brooker 2013, Kelly-Vance 2008) .  \nEven more, for parents and care givers, the capacity of adults to guide play in meaningful ways can unlock the transformative power of education for young children. However, lack of knowledge about how the benefits of guided play contributes to early-childhood development (ECD), particularly in lowresource and low-income settings, continues to result in young children growing up without adequate opportunities to develop through play (Lansdown 2005) .  \n17  \nAmerican Journal of Play, volume 12, number 1 © The Strong Contact Kim Foulds [at Kimberly.Foulds.sesame.org](at Kimberly.Foulds.sesame.org)  \nWe analyze findings from the pilot phases of Play EveryDay, an intervention based in urban communities in India, Mexico, and South Africa designed to shift care givers’ perceptions about play and its relationship to child development and learning and to empower them to guide children effectively in learning through play. This program intends to contribute to the knowledge of best practices for promoting playful learning. Using findings from formative research done through a series of community events at which care givers and children experience and practice guided play, this study seeks to demonstrate the universalities of play between care giver and child and the importance of cultural contextualization both to support care givers’ understanding of the value of play for children’s development and to enhance their role as play mentors.  \nAlthough play is both a universal phenomenon and a cultural construct (Haight 1999, Oke 1999, Edwards 2000, Parmar 2008), the design-based research of this pilot offers a series of recommendations for intervention design that supports care givers’ confidence as play mentors, their understanding of the value of play in children’s development, and the time they spend engaging their children in guided play activities using a variety of materials.  \nProject Overview  \nSesame Workshop and The LEGO Foundation launched Play Every Day, a multicountry project aimed at empowering care givers to leverage play in support of children’s early development and lifelong learning and to contribute to global understanding of best play practices as an integral part of daily life.  \nImplemented in disadvantaged urban and periurban communities of India, Mexi","cbCaik5SS5r4RPjY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik5SS5r4RPjY","pdf",886350,20,"English","# Project Overview\n# Overarching Principles\n# Balance between Standardization and Contextualization","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Play Every Day intervention?\",\"answer\":\"It is designed to shift caregivers’ perceptions about play and its relationship to child development, and to enable them to guide children in learning through play.\"},{\"question\":\"Where and when was Play Every Day implemented?\",\"answer\":\"It was implemented in disadvantaged urban and periurban communities in India, Mexico, and South Africa between April 2016 and December 2018.\"},{\"question\":\"How does guided play differ from free play or didactic instruction?\",\"answer\":\"Under guided play, a child leads active, engaged play while a supervising adult asks playful questions toward specific learning outcomes, often using selected toys or props and offering scaffolding.\"}]","Playing Every Day on Sesame Street - Global Learnings from a Play-Based Pilot Intervention in India, Mexico, and South Africa | PDF",1792072916,50,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":100},[101,105,109,113,118,122,126,129,133,136,140],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":121},6,"Technology","technology",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":123,"show_sort_weight":124,"slug":125},"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":86,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},30,"research-report",{"id":130,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":131,"show_sort_weight":92,"slug":132},9,"Religion & Spirituality","religion-spirituality",{"id":92,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":134,"show_sort_weight":92,"slug":135},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":137,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":138,"show_sort_weight":137,"slug":139},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":141,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":142,"show_sort_weight":114,"slug":143},19,"General","general"]