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Pedagogy of Play - PoP

Design for Children (play and learn)

​The aim of this project is how parents can improve Non-cognitive skills such as Affection, Sociality, Partnership, and Responsibility. There is a direct relationship between taking care of a plant by children and a sense of responsibility. Additionally, those skills can prepare children for their social responsibility and explain how they can protect the environment. In the next pages, I will explain how this project work.

  • How can we improve the sense of responsibility in children by taking care of a plant?

  • What is the best period that parents can develop a sense of responsibility in their children?

  • Would keeping a plant cause a sense of responsibility in children?

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Children, responsibility and environmental issues

Improving the sense of responsibility in children by designing the service and objects in order to keep plants

The key factor of the project is the simplicity and children like to pay attention to a small area, so every object must be in a specific area to decrease the sense of bored. For building interaction between the child and the plant, we need the support and attention of parents and through them, we must set priorities (the order of the things the child should do). Developing a sense of motivation and a sense of belonging can enhance the child's interaction with the plant and improve their sense of responsibility, as well as the child's understanding of being unable in comparison with the being comfortable concept. If the child feels she or he is a hero in an exemplary performance, they would feel responsible. If keeping plants combine the attractive factors such as play, we will have better feedback (when the sense of belonging to the child is created, or the child's play is merged, or it is like a competition). We should look for factors rather than encouragement and punishment. These two cannot act as stimuli. Feedback will be negative if the designed product for the child does not fit the child's mood.
In this project, the motivation is the Mahak organization and its humanitarian activities. The Mahak Society to Support Children with Cancer is a non-governmental organization in Tehran dedicated to helping Iranian children with cancer.

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