Dr Ludmila Elkoninova - International Council for Children's Play

3.3. Coordination of intention and implementation in a
play encourages appearance of positional
(decentered) action which may appear already in
late pre-school age, for instance, in a puppet theater
performed by the children themselves. Transition from
playing action towards scenic action may occur in it.
The essence of positional nature of scenic action is
retention by the child of two things simultaneously:
not only the mode of unfolding the performance, but
also the reaction of the spectator.
The experience of referring the intention and the
action implementation program serves as a foundation
for the task-oriented form of the child’s work at
school, for example, at solving math problems, writing
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compositions or at creative activity (drawing etc).