Sunday, November 30, 2014

Abcs Of The Playground Games

By Mayra Pierce


Games have a symbolic function, they serve as symbols that help create contexts, anticipate situations, plan future actions or interpret reality. Game favors the process of enculturation and arises naturally. It is indispensable for psychomotor, intellectual, emotional and social development, as skills develop with it and children learn to respect rules and have goals and objectives (the playground games).

Game are considered as part of human experience and present in all cultures. They are inherently a human activity. All of us have learned to relate to our family, social and cultural environment through play. It's a rich, broad, versatile and ambivalent concept that involves a a various categorizations. Many definitions have been stated about game as well, the dictionary of Royal Academy sees it as a recreational exercise rules under which it won or lost. However the polysemy of this and the subjectivity of various authors imply that any definition is only a partial approach to this entertaining phenomenon.

It can be said that they like any sociocultural reality is impossible to define in absolute terms, and therefore the definitions specify some of its features. Among the well known concepts work as follows: In summary, these and many other creators including Moreno-Palos, etc. Include in definitions that cover numerous characteristics common to a variety of views, of which some are most representative.

Game always help build implicit or explicit relations between children bolstered by fun and educational reference. It is an activity that has the end in itself, ie, the individual performing the activity itself to achieving the goal that is to be pleasant. Game has an intrinsic purpose and character of conflict is liberating because it ignores the problems and solve them. One of its main features, which aims to make an ordinary business activity added motivation.

Game takes place in a separate fictional world, it like a game narrated action, away from everyday life, a continuous symbolic message. It a conventional activity, because every game the result of social contract established by the players, who designed game and determine its internal order, its limitations.

Popular game often have few rules, which are usually simple, and they all kinds of materials are used, without having to be specific to game itself. They all have their objectives and a certain way of carrying them out: chase, throwing an object at a given site, conquer territory, retain or win an item, etc. His practice has no significance beyond game itself, is not institutionalized, and the big objective is to have fun.

Mammals are characterized by an evolved brain, long childhood, parental care, nursing pups, hunt group, social division and non-genetic work. Mammals play to hunt in a group, define hierarchies, exploration, division of labor, among others. Interaction between mammals (dogs, cats, water, primates) is based on imitation and exploration by trial and error. In some mammals there is a total lack of symbolic play.

Game is synonymous with pleasure, fun, gaiety, entertainment, but also plays the child to discover, know, know others and their environment. In non-social animals play occurs mainly during childhood as a means of psychomotor learning or experimentation and in adulthood as a behavior related to reproduction. In gregarious animals kept these play behaviors and associated social game to acquisition of status, establishing roles and add group relationship.




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