Review article
THE STIMULATION OF CHILDREN'S SOCIAL COMPETENCE THROUGH THE CONTEXT OF THEIR JOINT CREATION OF PUPPET PLAYS
Ivon Hicela
Abstract
This paper discusses the possibilities of children's joint creation of a puppet play as a specific play with imagination, which can provide preschoolers with an important framework for the acquisition, practice and refinement of social- cognitive skills.
The expositions of this paper start from the constructivist and interactive theory of learning, according to which children learn through balanced interaction. Through a joint creation of a puppet play, children demonstrate, establish and develop, i.e. construct psycho-social knowledge and, at the same time, improve their communication competence. In other words, while consolidating and externalising what they already know during the process of the creation of a puppet play, children also structure their social universe. The interactive operations that children use so as to construct coherent plays have given convincing results in respect of the designers' role in such joint imagination plays: children negotiate, take account of the opinion of others, explain their intentions, present arguments and justify their actions. This interpersonal coordination plays an important role in the general psychological development of children.
Theatrical imagination plays give children the phenomenal opportunity to take on different roles and react to them. In this way, they can study the position of others, their suggestions from different perspectives and points of view.
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2669
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Publication date:
11.1.2005.
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