A REVIEW STUDY OF THE PLAYWAY METHOD

Playing is the natural spirit of every child that can be used for the best learning of the children at primary level. Through this method, they can learn with happiness.  Play Way is a method that promotes the spirit of play in the teaching and learning process. Activity-based learning started in the year 1944 by David Horsburgh in Rishi Valley school. In the playway method, children use child-friendly educational aids to enrich their self-learning. In it children learn according to their aptitude and skill. The learners love to play, and it is their instinct. The play-way method was conceived by Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, the father of the Kindergarten method. As Froebel says that “Play is the purest, most spiritual activity of man at this stage and at the same time, typical of human life as a whole of the inner, hidden natural life in man all things. It gives, therefore joy, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world. It holds the source of all that is good” (Dr. V.K. Maheshwari, 2018). The Research shows that play and exploration have a solid role to play in the child’s overall learning process. Play is defined as any activity performed for enjoyment without regard for the result. Play can take various forms. This method serves as one of the child-centred, child-friendly education which is the mandate of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in India.