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Play market theme 2013 • english
The educational theory that is based on experience
intends a change in the behaviour and
the personality of boys and girls. The theory of
metaphorical learning, the work with one’s own
inner pictures and external symbols offers a
basis and helps to develop concepts of change.
The work with associations and inner pictures
makes an experience personally meaningful and
opens a viewpoint on individual developments,
relations, motivations for decisions and often
surprises with undreamt?of starting points for
a solution.
Imagination can create something new
To imitate situations and people playfully is a
natural predisposition of human beings. Children
use them daily to understand everyday
situation, to make themselves understood or
to turn into someone just for fun. The point of
role plays is imitation, combined with a lot of
imagination: a little piece of bread turns into a
secretive royal treasure and the cardboard box
into a well?fortified castle. Children begin role
plays from early age on, if you lead them into
this world of imagination. To acknowledge and
support this basic need is an important task of
kindergarten and after school daycare.
The holistic education of young people becomes
more important on the background of the
competitive demands at school and in society.
The purpose?free space for development of
girls and boys is getting smaller and smaller.
Their abilities and potentials are measured at
the fixed curriculums and ideas of the education
policy. In this area traditional forms of
educational youth work are maintained, mostly
offered by churches and youth organisations or
by projects of social work at schools. Here young
women and men are introduced to free, artistic
work, as they get involved in the material and its
specific aesthetics and enter a creative communication
between the materials offered and their
own ideas. Through this artistic creative work the
youth discovers new abilities and experience
that through their imagination they can create
something new, unusual or surprising.
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