scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE COMPOSITION, NATURE AND ROLE OF A GATHERING SPACE=BASE FOR A MIXED-AGED-CHILDREN'S PLAY-GROUP : A study on the relationship between playing activities and how a neighbourhood center is used by a mixed-aged-children's play-group during their activities N0.1

1991 ◽  
Vol 424 (0) ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Ikuko MUROSAKI
Keyword(s):  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Group A ◽  
Play Group ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Environmental and psychological research on sandpits as children's play equipment, children's play, and the importance of sandpits in children's development and cultural creation

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Kasama
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Women's College ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Developmental Growth ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Sandpits are commonly found in playgrounds but in a world full of high-tech entertainment is their role in the developmental growth of young children undervalued? Professor Hiroyuki Kasama, Doshisha Women's College, Japan, is exploring the impact of sandpits on children, including the role they can play in deepening the relationship between parent and child. Sandpits first came about in Europe in the mid-19th century but have recently become unfavourable to many parents who consider them to be 'dirty' play. However, playing with sand yields important benefits, including the use of natural materials and the fact it provides a valuable sensory experience that enables children to build on emotional, social and athletic skills. Kasama is investigating the important potential of sandpits as well as working on childcare and education programmes that use sandpits for learning. Kasama is keen to improve the sandpit environment by standardising the type of sand used in order to make play more effective and observing the suitability of the sand by observing children's play and the reactions of their caregivers. Kasama and the team have also supervised the installation of indoor sandpits that can be used year-round. Ultimately, by clarifying the significance and necessity of playing with sand and discovering its potential, Kasama is aiming to provide children with effective environments that promote growth and development.

Working toward play: Complexity in children's fantasy activities

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn R. Whalen
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Pretend Play ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Fantasy Play ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Complex Features ◽  
Play Group ◽  
Mixed Age

ABSTRACTChildren's play activities are widely perceived as developing from primitive to increasingly complex forms of social organization, as children mature and acquire interactional competency. Research following this traditional, developmentally oriented approach postulates that sports and games with rules are the most advanced and complex form of play activity; activities involving fantasy and pretend-play are viewed in comparison as considerably less complex. This article argues that fantasy play encounters exhibit complex features in their own right, and that long-held distinctions between higher-order games and fantasy play are conceptually overdrawn. The argument is grounded in a conversation analytic study of the play activities of a cross-sex, mixed-age neighborhood play group. This analysis focuses on the endogenous social organization of a fantasy play encounter. (Conversation analysis, children's play, socialization, social psychology)

Omega Children: A Study of the Lowest Ranking Members of the Children's Play Group

1983 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
Harvey J. Ginsburg ◽  
Mitzi S. Wauson ◽  
Michael Easley
Keyword(s):  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Play Group

The Role of Play in the Life of the Child

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Cattanach
Keyword(s):  
Real Situation ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Situational Constraints ◽  
The Way

Pellegrini and Smith (1998) have provided a challenging review of the forms and possible functions of play during childhood, and Blatchford's (1998) paper on children's play reports a programme of research about the nature of play at school breaktimes that seems to be the sort of research that Pellegrini and Smith recommend in their conclusion, calling for more descriptive studies of children's play. When considering the nature and possible functioning of play during childhood Pellegrini and Smith explore general definitional issues. They suggest that play theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky considered that play was the way that children learnt skills necessary for successful functioning in adulthood. Perhaps this is a simple way to express, for example, Vygotsky's (1978) descriptions of play in ‘The Role of Play in Development’ in Mind in society. Vygotsky states that in play a child creates an imaginary situation; that play is the place where a child spontaneously makes use of his ability to separate meaning from an object without knowing he is doing it. The creation of an imaginary situation is the first manifestation of the child's emancipation from situational constraints and the primary paradox of play is that the child operates with an alienated meaning in a real situation. Vygotsky may be describing an important skill for successful functioning in adulthood, but it is also an important function in childhood.

scholarly journals The Importance of Taking Risks: A Report on the Conference

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
I.A. Kotliar ◽  
M.V. Sokolova ◽  
E.G. Sheina
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Prevention Programmes ◽  
Western Theory ◽  
Pedagogical Analysis

The paper gives an overview of the 14th interdisciplinary conference The Importance of Taking Risks held by the Welsh branch of the International Play Association. The meeting focused on various aspects of supporting children’s play and on the role of risk in child development. The conference had a clear multidis- ciplinary character and brought together specialists from a variety of fields: psychologists, teachers, social workers, experts in risk assessment, and health care professionals. The paper outlines how risk is understood in modern western theory and practice and distinguishes between risk and danger. A child must be taught to assess situations as safe or dangerous. However, modern developmental environment tends to reduce the possibility of risks for the child, which deprives him/her of the natural means of learning about the world and reduces creativity and independence and holds back the child’s self-regulation, prolonging compelled dependence and making children more infantile. The conference also involved discussions concerning tech- niques for risk assessment and a number of prevention programmes and practices. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (project No 15-06-10627 “Psychological and pedagogical analysis of children’s play environment of the modern city”).

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