Children’s interest in media-inspired play and teacher reactions: Resistance in the playground

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What happens when teachers exclude an aspect of children's home culture-popular media-from early childhood centres? This case study documents how teacher rules ("no guns", "no toys from home") impacted more on boys than girls, and how boys subverted the rules to act out their media-inspired war, weapon, and superhero play.

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White, M. (2008). Children’s interest in media-inspired play and teacher reactions: Resistance in the playground. Early Childhood Folio, 12, 18–21. https://doi.org/10.18296/ecf.0185
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