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Pretend Play As Improvisation - Conversation in the Preschool Classroom (Paperback)
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Pretend Play As Improvisation - Conversation in the Preschool Classroom (Paperback)
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Everyday conversations including gossip, boasting, flirting,
teasing, and informative discussions are highly creative,
improvised interactions. Children's play is also an important,
often improvisational activity. One of the most improvisational
games among 3- to 5-year-old children is social pretend play--also
called fantasy play, sociodramatic play, or role play. Children's
imaginations have free reign during pretend play. Conversations in
these play episodes are far more improvisational than the average
adult conversation. Because pretend play occurs in a dramatized,
fantasy world, it is less constrained by social and physical
reality. This book adds to our understanding of preschoolers'
pretend play by examining it in the context of a theory of
improvisational performance genres. This theory, derived from
in-depth analyses of the implicit and explicit rules of theatrical
improvisation, proves to generalize to pretend play as well. The
two genres share several characteristics: * There is no script;
they are created in the moment. * There are loose outlines of
structure which guide the performance. * They are collective; no
one person decides what will happen. Because group improvisational
genres are collective and unscripted, improvisational creativity is
a collective social process. The pretend play literature states
that this improvisational behavior is most prevalent during the
same years that many other social and cognitive skills are
developing. Children between the ages of 3 and 5 begin to develop
representations of their own and others' mental states as well as
learn to represent and construct narratives. Freudian psychologists
and other personality theorists have identified these years as
critical in the development of the personality. The author believes
that if we can demonstrate that children's improvisational
abilities develop during these years--and that their fantasy
improvisations become more complex and creative--it might suggest
that these social skills are linked to the child's developing
ability to improvise with other creative performers.
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