A study that questioned earlier findings
The Strategic Use of Parallel Play: A Sequential Analysis
Roger A. Bakeman, John R. Brownlee · 1980 · Child Development
- Children
- About 40 children
- Where
- Not given in the summary we read
- Ages
- About 2½ to 3½ years
- How
- Researchers filmed children playing
- What it found
- Children often moved from playing alongside others into playing with them, several times within a session. Playing alongside seemed to be a way into group play, not a separate stage.
- Limits
- We have only read the summary.