This paper explores the methodological advantages and challenges of participatory tools used in research with young children in Ireland. Taking a child‐centred approach, hand puppets and ‘draw and ...tell’ helped elicit children's expressions and meanings. Both techniques assisted in shifting the power balance between children and researchers, encouraged dialogue, created a fun atmosphere and promoted children's participation. When children are given the space, opportunity and means, and with skilled facilitation, they can clearly share their perspectives and meanings. It is important that researchers and practitioners use techniques that will facilitate and maximise young children's competencies, agency and preferences.
La mémoire d'une société s'étend jusque-là où elle peut, c'est-à-dire jusqu'où atteint la mémoire des groupes dont elle est composée. Ce n'est point par mauvaise volonté, antipathie, répulsion ou ...indifférence qu'elle oublie une si grande quantité des événements et des figures anciennes. C'est que les groupes qui en gardaient le souvenir ont disparu. Si la durée de la vie humaine était doublée ou triplée, le champ de la mémoire collective, mesuré en unités de temps, serait bien plus étendu. (M...
The world’s largest collection of Indonesian puppets (wayang), assembled between 1973 and 2011 by Swiss collector Walter Angst and now in the Yale University Art Gallery, is a product of a zoological ...passion for preserving the diversity of an art form, the ongoing modernization of puppetry in Indonesia, and the active involvement of Angst’s agents in Indonesia—including both dealers and some of Indonesia’s most famous puppeteers. Drawing on Marshall Sahlins’ concept of “structure of the conjuncture,” this article looks at the Dr. Walter Angst and Sir Henry Angest Collection of Indonesian Puppets (as the Angst collection is now known) as both structure and event. In a period of increasing standardization due to the influences of media, education, and globalization, Angst endeavored to capture the variety of traditional puppet forms in western Indonesia and salvage endangered and extinct wayang arts through his collecting of representative sets of figures. His collection defines the different styles and substyles of puppetry practiced in the twentieth century, and also maps out his personal relationships with Indonesian practitioners—who were often both his employees and personal tutors in the art. While Angst expressed little interest in wayang’s experimental offshoots, the collection nonetheless demonstrates how wayang has constantly responded to social change over two centuries.
In a recent article in this journal, Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022) critique research on social cognition for so often using puppets and dolls in its research tasks instead of real persons. First, ...they suggest that such tasks have dubious validity including low ecological validity. Then they suggest when children’s performance on social-cognitive using puppets and dolls mirrors their performance with real people, children are pretending the puppets are real people. We argue that this misconstrues how children treat puppets in typical social-cognitive research: Children do not pretend puppets are people in such tasks; instead, they accept the experimental framing that the puppet represents a person. Children take the puppet as an acceptable and common stand-in for a person.
•Critiques article and arguments by Packer & Moreno-Dulcey that sets the stage for this special issue.•Contends that Packer & Moreno-Dulcey misconstrue how children understand puppets used in social-cognition tasks.•Instead children treat puppets (and dolls) as straightforward person stand-ins, just as experimenters expect.
Introduction: The prevalence rates of disease at preschool age are higher than toddlers and school age. The coping mechanism has not developed at that age, thus contributing to increased anxiety ...levels during hospitalization. Interventions are needed to overcome anxiety problems so that children are more comfortable and cooperative in undergoing treatment in the hospital more effectively. The research aims to examine the effect of storytelling using finger puppets on anxiety in hospitalized preschool children.
Methods: Quasi-experiment research with pre and post-test design, 40 preschool children were selected with purposive sampling with inclusion and exclusion criteria, 20 respondents of treatment groups, and 20 respondents of control groups. The instrument used FAS. Data analysis used is the Mann Whitney and Wilcoxon Sign Rank Tests.
Results: Mann-Whitney results showed the difference in anxiety between treatment and control group in post-test (p=0.023), and Wilcoxon results showed Z count -3.827 a< Z table -1.96 value asymp sig. (2-tailed) where z arithmetic ≤ z table which means there is influence or probability value p= 0.000 (p< α= 0,05) which means H1 accepted.
Conclusion: It is expected that in the future, it can be used as an alternative method to reduce anxiety. And then it’s hoped that researchers can further examine more deeply the effectiveness of parental involvement in storytelling play therapy.
Young children care what others think of them, but are these concerns specific to interactions with humans? Here we ask whether 4-year-old children engage in self-presentational behaviors even with a ...puppet. After failing to activate a toy in the presence of a puppet, children selectively demonstrated their success on the toy when the puppet was absent during their final success. This pattern was found when the puppet was treated as an agent capable of holding mental states (Exp.1), but not when it was treated as an object (Exp.2); we further explore the role of indirect, linguistic cues to the puppet’s agency (Exp.3). These results highlight the importance of social contexts, particularly how an entity is depicted by others, in eliciting self-presentational behaviors. We discuss how depiction of puppets may influence their effectiveness in developmental research, and the possibility of self-presentational concerns in children’s interactions with social robots and AI agents.
•Self-presentational behaviors may not be limited to interactions with humans.•Children are willing to show off their abilities even to a puppet.•Describing the puppet as an agent or an object modulates this tendency.
When young children are tested on social cognition tasks using puppets or dolls, do they exhibit similar, and similarly valid, results, as when they are tested for their understanding using real ...persons? We tested this question empirically by conducting a meta-analysis (aggregating data across 259 separate studies and 35,189 children) on false-belief theory of mind tasks. In our data, children were often tested with puppets and dolls (more than 70 % of the time) but performed essentially equivalently as when tested with real persons. This equivalence held in many countries (36), including English-speaking countries like the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, European countries like Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Portugal, non-western countries like Japan, China, Thailand, and the Philippines, plus South and Central American countries like Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. This equivalence also held in various age groups, focally children who were 2.5–6 years at the time they were developing their theory of mind. Young children in this age range were similarly incorrect at judging false beliefs with puppets and dolls just as with people, and older children were similarly correct.
•Empirically examines whether children treat puppets and dolls as representing people in theory of mind research.•Reports a meta-analysis (aggregating data across 259 studies and 35,189 children) on false-belief theory of mind tasks.•Children performed equivalently when tested with puppets or dolls as when tested with real persons.•The equivalence held in 36 countries and across age groups of 2.5-6 years.
Animation: The New Performance? Silvio, Teri
Journal of linguistic anthropology,
December 2010, Volume:
20, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
From the 1950s through the 1990s, the trope of performance was elaborated across a range of academic disciplines, providing a platform for comparing the construction of identities through mimetic ...embodiment in ritual, work, and everyday life. Today, as animation is being remediated through digital media, both scholars and participants in various types of online communities are beginning to use animation as a trope for human action on/in the world. This essay attempts to bring together the insights of recent scholarship in various disciplines in order to outline a general animation model, first presenting some of the characteristics of animation that allow it to draw connections between social, technological, and psychic structures, and then examining some of the ways that the models of animation and performance interact in contemporary subcultural practices.
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