Dr Ludmila Elkoninova - International Council for Children's Play

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2.6. The sensual material of the play is an initial, spontaneous emotional state caused by some event, something that caught the child's attention, impressed him/her, provoked his/her reaction. The experienced event affects the child existentially, necessarily touches upon the consciousness of his life. The child takes such an event more or less emotionally, more or less distinctively, but the significant thing is that the child does not understand its meaning. It can be, for instance, the feeling of solitude when the child is sent to nursery school, fear, envy, and grievance. The word combination “assignment of meaning” pushes towards understanding of a play as a process of finding out the ready-made, but not exactly clears where lying 14 meaning. This is not so.
2.7. By giving the sensual material a two-steps form, a child generates the meaning, he/she creates it. The meaning as an object exists only when it is being lived through. By playing, a child objectifies his/her inner world, makes it representable – he/she shapes it as a plot, turns it into a story with events. He/she constructs a situation, in which a natural experience has occurred – since if one cannot feel it, then there is nothing to shape, there is nothing to overcome. He/she creates a space where the collision has happened, evokes the conflict anew, acts with it upon him/herself (challenge), and tries to respond to his/her feeling with an action, to find release to his/her feeling (catharsis). This doesn’t happen easy with a child. The child tries ‘successfulness’ of a conflict-resolving action through repetitions, with the help of which successfulness of an action is being felt again and again, and it is tested. Two-step form of a play is a functional organ, with the help of which the meaning is being lived through and generated. 15
Page 1 and 2: FULL CYCLE OF DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIO-
Page 3 and 4: The definition of a play in general
Page 5 and 6: 1.2.The difficulty is that for a ch
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Page 13: 2.5. The concept of a two-steps for
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