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PLAY GAME – MAIN ACTIVITY IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
PLAY GAME – MAIN ACTIVITY IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Elena Lucia Mara
Subject(s): School education, Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: play; development; connexions; theories; disciplines;

Summary/Abstract: Play as a free movement and as an individual's pleasure is one of the essential ways of manifesting the human spirit. A complex anthropological phenomenon, which in specific forms and contents is asserted at all ages, in all civilizations”. The predominant type of activity in childhood is play. The child's play is actually knowledge, emotion, discovery and relationship. The game provides the child with stimuli, life situations, motor purchases, new knowledge, specific, adaptive experiences, relationship with the environment, interactions with the people around him. The game involves all the cognitive functions and many non-cognitive factors of the child: perceptions, thinking, memory, language, emotions, imagination, creativity. In the game the child experiences success and failure, refers to them through specific behaviors. Vocabulary develops significantly, diversifies. Express preferences and refusals.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 50-59
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian