Description: Pretend Play As Improvisation : Conversation in the Preschool Classroom, Hardcover by Sawyer, R. Keith, ISBN 0805821198, ISBN-13 9780805821192, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Everyday conversations including gossip, boasting, flirting, teasing, and informative discussions are highly creative, improvised interactions. Childrens play is also an important, often improvisational activity. One of the most improvisational games among 3- to 5-year-old children is social pretend play--also called fantasy play, sociodramatic play, or role play. Childrens imaginations have free reign during pretend play. Conversations in these play episodes are far more improvisational than the average adult conversation. Because pretend play occurs in a dramatized, fantasy world, it is less constrained by social and physical reality.
This book adds to our understanding of preschoolers pretend play by examining it in the context of a theory of improvisational performance genres. This theory, derived from in-depth analyses of the implicit and explicit rules of theatrical improvisation, proves to generalize to pretend play as well. The two genres share several characteristics:
* There is no script; they are created in the moment.
* There are loose outlines of structure which guide the performance.
* They are collective; no one person decides what will happen.
Because group improvisational genres are collective and unscripted, improvisational creativity is a collective social process.
The pretend play literature states that this improvisational behavior is most prevalent during the same years that many other social and cognitive skills are developing. Children between the ages of 3 and 5 begin to develop representations of their own and others mental states as well as learn to represent and construct narratives. Freudian psychologists and other personality theorists have identified these years as critical in the development of the personality. The author believes that if we can demonstrate that childrens improvisational abilities develop during these years--and that their fantasy improvisations become more complex and creative--it might suggest that these social skills are linked to the childs developing ability to improvise with other creative performers.
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Book Title: Pretend Play As Improvisation : Conversation in the Preschool Cla
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Pretend Play As Improvisation : Conversation in the Preschool Classroom
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Year: 1997
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: General, Developmental / General, Role Playing & Fantasy, Social Psychology
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Subject Area: Games & Activities, Psychology
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Hardcover
