Friedrich von schiller
- play is exuberant energy left over from our labors
- ex: Children play after school
G-Stanley Hall
Recapitulation Theory
- First person to recognize that children develop in stages
- play to relieve our genetic past
John Dewey-
Progressive educator
child centered curriculum based interest
play actions as the way children form ideas-> he acts the idea out before he takes it in
Sigmund Freud
Play is a mechanism for resolving pressure that a child feels
- instinct anxiety- is our fear of our own desire of instincts–> do/say things in play that they cannot do in real life
- object anxiety
- fear of outside world –> children can put themselves in power
Sigmund Freud cont.
Superego-adulthood
Id-our desires
Ego-play, balances id and superego
Erik Erickson
Play is a way of working out personality formation and a way of understanding and interpreting what a child is feeling
Anna Freud
Play is a way of working out traumas
Lilli Peller
wish fufillment
Gregory Bateson
-Play frame- imaginary world
- B.F. Skinner (Behaviorist)-
Language learned through reinforcement (rewards/punishment) and imitation. Operant Conditioning- parents reinforce the baby’s effects at language
- Noam Chomsky (Nativist)-
Language learned innately through a Language
- Interactionist-
language learned through socialized and inner capabilities
Play Rhetoric: Progress
Play Form- Pretend Games
Discipline- Education, psych, biology
Fate:
Gambling
Mathematics
Power
Play form: Athletics
Disciplines:Sociology
Identity
Festivals Parties
Anthropology
Imaginary
Fantasy Art
Literature
Self
Leisure, Psychiatry
Frivolity
Nonsense
Pop culture
