TY - JOUR
T1 - Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning
AU - Swirbul, Mackenzie S.
AU - Herzberg, Orit
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Child Health and Development (Grant number: R01HD094830 ) and the Robin Hood Foundation . We are grateful to the children and caregivers who participated in this research and to the funders that supported the work. We are indebted to Mariana Colmenares and other staff at our community-based partner, whose assistance with visits and coding made this research possible. Finally, we thank Alexandra Mendelsohn, Fernanda Robelo, Rachel Ho, Francesca Walker, Sydney Liang and other members of the Play and Language Lab for conducting visits, coding data, and offering feedback on this manuscript.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Child Health and Development (Grant number: R01HD094830) and the Robin Hood Foundation. We are grateful to the children and caregivers who participated in this research and to the funders that supported the work. We are indebted to Mariana Colmenares and other staff at our community-based partner, whose assistance with visits and coding made this research possible. Finally, we thank Alexandra Mendelsohn, Fernanda Robelo, Rachel Ho, Francesca Walker, Sydney Liang and other members of the Play and Language Lab for conducting visits, coding data, and offering feedback on this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Infants everywhere engage with objects throughout the day, even if the objects of play differ across cultures. Indeed, object play is a universal context for learning. Yet, the characteristics of object play at home remain largely unexamined, especially in infants from non-English-speaking backgrounds. Through frame-by-frame video coding, we documented Hispanic infants’ object interactions based on 1–2 h of naturalistic home observations. Infants interacted with a wide variety of toys and household objects in brief bouts that summed to ~60% of their time. As infants transition among objects, they serendipitously generate opportunities for learning that support development across domains.
AB - Infants everywhere engage with objects throughout the day, even if the objects of play differ across cultures. Indeed, object play is a universal context for learning. Yet, the characteristics of object play at home remain largely unexamined, especially in infants from non-English-speaking backgrounds. Through frame-by-frame video coding, we documented Hispanic infants’ object interactions based on 1–2 h of naturalistic home observations. Infants interacted with a wide variety of toys and household objects in brief bouts that summed to ~60% of their time. As infants transition among objects, they serendipitously generate opportunities for learning that support development across domains.
KW - Curriculum for learning
KW - Exploration
KW - Hispanic infants
KW - Object interaction
KW - Play
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101712
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101712
M3 - Article
C2 - 35378342
AN - SCOPUS:85127092479
VL - 67
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
SN - 0163-6383
M1 - 101712
ER -