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Sep 2025
29m 30s

Episode 79: Understanding Play Schemas

Cari Ebert
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In this episode, Cari and Jim explore the concept of play schemas...repeated patterns of behavior that reveal how young children learn and make sense of the world.    Defender of Play T-Shirt 
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