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Play is one of the most effective tools describing the child's wishes, goals, obtaining them requests and preparing them for life. Children learn spontaneously in the play knowledge and skills, behaviours necessary for living. Play is a need as important as eating and sleeping for a child's healthy development physically and mentally and education. Therefore, the investigation of the effects on children and examination of studies associated with the play which is important in respect to the development of pre-school children, is important. In the literature review, is seen not to be found an extensive analysis studies determining the orientation of the subjects studied in the theses master's and doctoral made on the play field in pre-school. From this point in the research, was aimed examination of the thematic distribution of the postgraduate education theses made associated with the play in pre-school in Turkey. Research population used document analysis method constitutes 1392 postgraduate education thesis restricted as the game, subject area, archived by Department of Higher Education Publication Documentation. In sample of the study, totally 38 postgraduate thesis including 32 master’s degree, 6 doctoral thesis made on the playing field in pre-school have been included. As a result examining of the studies, in studies was also determined to be included scale adaptation studies included language, cognitive, social-emotional development, self-care skills, concept development, mathematics education, communication, social, and perspective-taking skills, themes as play in the special education and examined opinions of teachers, administrators and parents about game applications.

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