Jamie Leach, Mount Saint Vincent University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Mount Saint Vincent University profile.

Latest papers

Preschool Children's Loose Parts Play and the Relationship to Cognitive Development: A Review of the Literature.
Journal of Intelligence · 2023

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Examining parent-child play types, duration, and engagement with loose parts: How parental income, educational attainment, and children's age and cognitive functioning shape loose parts play
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$45,142

All 1 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

Preschool Children's Loose Parts Play and the Relationship to Cognitive Development: A Review of the Literature.

Cankaya O, Rohatyn-Martin N, Leach J, Taylor K, Bulut O

Journal of Intelligence202358 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence11080151 PMID: 37623534

Examining parent-child play types, duration, and engagement with loose parts: How parental income, educational attainment, and children's age and cognitive functioning shape loose parts play

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Cankaya, Ozlem

Keywords: play; young children; loose parts; toys; materials; parents; engagement; play types

$45,142

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Child And Youth Study
Exceptional, Special Education
Early Learning and Curriculum Studies
Other

Co-authors at Mount Saint Vincent University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Natalia Rohatyn-Martin

Exceptional, Special Education

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Okan Bulut

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Ozlem Cankaya

Early Learning and Curriculum Studies

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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