- Title
- The effect of using a six brick Duplo block guided play approach on pre-school learners’ visual perceptual abilities
- Creator
- Jemutai, Sarah
- Subject
- Teaching -- Aids and devices
- Subject
- Early childhood education -- South Africa Early childhood education -- Kenya Education, Preschool -- South Africa Education, Preschool -- Kenya
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/17724
- Identifier
- vital:28442
- Description
- This study investigated the possible effects that the use of guided play using the 6 Brick Duplo Block approach might have in terms of the development of aspects of visual perception in pre-literate 5-7year old children. An explanatory sequential mixed-method design was employed. Seventy-seven Grade R learners in two schools, one in the Republic of South Africa and the other in the Republic of Kenya, comprised the purposive convenience sample. Quantitative pre- and post-intervention data were generated using the Visual Perception Aspects Test (VPAT) and analysed using Excel functions to generate descriptive and inferential statistics. The pre-test mean score in the Kenyan school was statistically and practically significantly lower than the South African pre-test mean score. This difference was attributed to the amount and type of play that took place in the natural settings of these schools prior to the intervention and the nature and amount of play material available in each. The largest improvements from the pre- to post-tests occurred in the South African and Kenyan experimental groups and the difference between them dropped from the 99% level of confidence in the pre-test to the 95% level of confidence in the post-test. These findings suggest that using the 6 Brick Duplo Block approach may accelerate the development of aspects of visual discrimination in pre-literate 5-7-year-old children and that the approach may be most effective when used with children who have had little previous exposure to guided play at school. Qualitative data were obtained through open-ended classroom observations and semi-structured teacher interviews with the experimental group class teachers. Classroom observation revealed that the learners were enthusiastic about the guided play and the semi-structured interviews revealed that they realise the importance of using guided play for developing the visual skills necessary for reading, writing and numeracy. The overall findings of this study suggest that the development of aspects of visual perception were accelerated in the study sample of pre-literate Grade R learners when their teachers facilitated guided play using the 6 Brick Duplo Block approach. Recommendations are made that curriculum developers, early childhood advisors and teachers should be made aware of the potential of using guided play and reconsider the Piaget‟s stages of cognitive development to design appropriate instructional materials that promote learners‟ visual perceptual growth and development.
- Format
- xvi, 177 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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