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Included in Web of Science СС (ESCI) Psychological Science and Education Publisher: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education ISSN (printed version): 1814-2052 ISSN (online): 2311-7273 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/pse License: CC BY-NC 4.0 Published since 1996 Published 6 times a year Free of fees RU In Russian |
Psychological Science and Education The Structure and Variants of a Preschooler’s Narrative Play 8059Smirnova E.O. Ryabkova I.A. Abstract
The paper discusses the concept of children’s play in a broad and narrow sense. In a broad sense, play is viewed as a free, emotionally-charged activity without enforcement that includes spontaneous testing of oneself and play content. A more accurate scientific definition of play was suggested by D. B. Elkonin who regarded the action role play as the highest and most developed
play form which reproduces social relationships among people. The authors believe that the latter does not cover many widespread kinds of narrative (action) play where the children do not simulate the actions of adults. Therefore, following L. S. Vygotsky, the divergence between the imaginary and real situations is considered to be the main criterion of narrative play as the leading activity of a preschooler. The structure of narrative play is believed to include additional components: objects (toys), time and space of
the play, interaction with the partner and the position of the player. Based on different player’s positions, a typology of narrative plays is proposed. It includes seven variants: traditional role play, role play via a toy, individual role play, directed individual and directed joint plays, procedural play, and event-driven play where the child is acting from a real position. Recognition of the imaginary situation as the main criteria of play makes it possible to consider those play types as independent forms of a preschooler’s leading activity.
Keywords: play, narrative play, imaginary situation, play structure, objects of play, space and time of play, interaction of partners, directed play, event-driven play Column: Developmental Psychology References
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