Factors
Affecting Play
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Factors Affecting Play
CONTINUITY AND
CHANGE
MEDIA CULTURES
GENDER
ETHNICITY
VIOLENCE AND PLAY
FIGHTING
CREATIVITY
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
A concept where some things will change, while others will
stay the same. There is things on their way out, things on
their way in.
Children's play has moved away from
street games into the more controlled
environment of playgrounds.
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Another thing that’s changed about childhood is that children
have had more access to a wider range of media cultures,
partly because they have more purchasing power than they
used to have to buy toys and video games, and DVDs.
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Fantasy games, where you take on a
role, have increased tremendously
and got more complicated because
we now have superheroes, we now
have television and film stories that
can be enacted in the school.
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Children will inherit things and
pass them onto their younger
brothers and sisters and the
younger
children
in
the
playground, but they will also
make things up, or they’ll change
things whenever they want to.
MEDIA CULTURES
As we get older, each culture we have has a
particular effect on us. Depending on how or what to play, has
an impact on the kids' visual cues for how and what to play.
Their playground games have long had components of their
media cultures. We may find kids playing out games that can
be traced back to specific video game titles, including combatstyle games or games requiring stealth and pursuing, which are
newer media like computer games and online participatory
media are also in evidence.
MEDIA CULTURES
People frequently worry that children's media cultures and
their ostensibly traditional playground cultures are at odds with
one another or that computer games are in some way
undermining, demeaning, or replacing their traditional games.
GENDER
Boys and girls sometimes show
different kinds of behavior and
make different choices in their
play. Where girls and boys do
share the same play area, they
sometimes use it differently –
for example, the home play area
can be dominated by girls, with
boys choosing a more risky
outdoor play.
GENDER
As Glenda MacNaughton (1999, p81) notes,
children’s pretend play is rich in
information about how they understand
gender relations. As they play at ‘having
babies’, ‘being monsters’, or ‘making a
hospital’, they show others what they think
girls and women can and should do, and
what they think boys and men can and
should do.
ETHNICITY
Even in multicultural settings, preschool children
may gravitate toward playing with kids of their own ethnicity.
Even very young children are influenced by the culture around
them, the scientists wrote, and studies in the 1980s and 90s
found that, when given the choice, children of the same
ethnicity preferred to play with one another rather than with
kids from different ethnic groups. These preferences emerge
by age 3 or so. The new study of French-Canadian and AsianCanadian 3- to 5-year-olds finds similar results.
VIOLENCE AND PLAY FIGHTING
Doctor Chris Richards explores the role of
‘play fighting on the playground. He suggests
that rather than simply imitating and enforcing
harmful and violent games, children are aware
that what they are playing is a fantasy and
at a level of pretense. He also discusses the
difference between boys’ and girls’
combative play.
VIOLENCE AND PLAY FIGHTING
Play fighting is also known as rough
and tumble play. It has been defined as
physical, high-energy play, such as chase
and play fighting activities often
accompanied by positive feelings (think
laughing and smiling) between the
children involved.
VIOLENCE AND PLAY FIGHTING
School playgrounds are places where
there's a lot of emphasis put on
cooperation, harmony, on playing
together. If something looks like it
involves
throwing
punches
or
kicking, or anything of that kind,
teachers seize on that and see it as
a problem.
VIOLENCE AND PLAY FIGHTING
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOYS’
AND GIRLS’ COMBATIVE PLAY.
Boys are more likely to express their
aggression as an impulsive act. Girls are
more likely than boys to use nonverbal signs
of aggression such as disdainful facial
expressions, ignoring, and eye-rolling.
Females are less likely than males to engage
in severe forms of violence.
CREATIVITY
One of the most important types of
creative activity for young children is
creative play or creativity. Creativity is expressed when
children use familiar materials in a new or unusual way, and
when children engage in role-playing and imaginative play.
Play is the serious business of young children and the
opportunity to play freely is vital to their healthy
development.
CREATIVITY
Doctor Rebekah Willett explores and explains
how children bring imaginative narratives and
language into their games such as running
around games, socio-dramatic play, fantasy
play, and singing and dancing games. She also
discusses how an adult’s perception of what is
‘imaginative’ may exclude games that draw on
children’s creativity such as chaotic and
phantasmagorical play.
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