Symbolic creativity in play activity
A Critique on Playthings From Daily Life Objects to Toys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nilüfer Talu (0000-0003-4505-8364, Izmir Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-96 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Play (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-4937 • E-ISSN: 2159-4953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21594937.2018.1436685 |
| OpenAlex | W2792892527 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Play is an essential activity for children’s development. Children play with daily life objects as well as toys. Daily life with its various objects and practices provides a real freedom for discovery and self-realization. Children celebrate this value through symbolic creativity that flourishes in various play practices, such as symbolic object use, storytelling, animation in special modes of virtualization and actualization, construction with everyday mathematics and puzzling for order in chaos. The study examines a girl’s play activities with daily life things and waste materials between 6 and 8 years of ages. Finally, the study emphasizes that: (1) symbolic creativity is necessary for children’s self-realization and accordingly for their well-being and (2) toys must be selected carefully to stimulate children’s ability to imagine, create and produce
Aesthetics · Animation · Art · Creativity · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Storytelling · The Symbolic · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Wild Things
Material culture and mass consumption
Japan, the U.S. and the Globalization of Children's Consumer Culture
Phenomenology of Spirit
The Wow Climax
The Place of Play
Coining Capital
Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx
Damsels in Discourse
Handbook of Material Culture
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Children's Imaginative Play
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |