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  • Symbolic play as a way of development and learning of preschool children in preschool institutions
    Marjanovič Umek, Ljubica ...
    The paper considers symbolic play in different age groups of children in preschool institutions. Symbolic play was stimulated through two different structured activities and dictation of the ... preparation and the use of different toys and play materials (i.e. thematic symbolic play related to pictorial material). The children's play was videotaped in their home playrooms. The videotypes were analysed by competent observers using Smilansky's scale for assessing dramatic and sociodramatic play. Analysis was aimed at establishing which elements determine the symbolic play of children of different age groups with regard to two different play situations, and how they determine it. At the same time, we wished to set out some critical points which significantly determine the nature and course of symbolic play indifferent age groups of children in preschool institutions. The research also offers certain applied results, since psychological and educational elements of the analysis of the results can serve as a framework in the search for different options for blending the development and learning of preschool children through symbolic play.
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 1999
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9941858