Play Activities of Children in the First Six Grades

Foster, Josephine C.

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“…The types of games popular during youth have been investigated by Angell (4), Blanchard (10), Foster (38), and Johnson (66).…”

Section: A Types Of Playmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Hurlock¹

1934

Psychological Bulletin

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Students of child psychology have emphasized the periodicity of the play behavior of children of different ages and have investigated the forms of play which are characteristic of each age. It is the purpose of this paper to bring together in systematic form the studies which relate to the play of the different stages of development from birth to maturity.Among writers, there is no agreement as to how many play periods there are in the child's development, what names shall be applied to these periods nor how long each one of them lasts. Among the best classifications of age periods in play behavior are those of Baldwin (8), Croswell (31), Curtis (32), Gulick (50), Johnson (66), King (70), Kirkpatrick (71), Lee (72), Lehman and Witty (80), Pyle (103), Puffer (102), Reaney (104), and Wood (128).Several investigators have attempted to explain the periodicity of play in terms of its causes. Lee (72), Waddle (123), and Norsworthy and Whitley (98) ascribe the different plays of different ages to "instincts." Blanchard (10) and Gulick (50) maintain that the child's play interests depend upon chronological age, physiological age, mental age and environmental situations. Lehman and Wilkerson (78) report that chronological age is more powerful than mental age in determining the child's play behavior. Reaney (104) has subdivided the play of the childhood years into four different periods, based upon chronological age. Many investigators have stressed the fact that the transition from one form of play to another is gradual and often barely perceptible. Curtis (32), Lee (72), and Lehman and Witty (80) point out that the different play periods are not separated by distinct dividing lines.In the classification of play, the following stages of development have been arbitrarily used by the writer: (1) Babyhood (birth to three years) ; (2) Childhood (three to six years) ; (3) Youth (six to eleven or twelve years); (4) Adolescence (eleven or twelve ta twenty-one years).

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“…The types of games popular during youth have been investigated by Angell (4), Blanchard (10), Foster (38), and Johnson (66).…”

Section: A Types Of Playmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Hurlock¹

1934

Psychological Bulletin

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“…The structure of children's games has found its students. Yet, it is also obvious that this area needs still more thorough research despite the efforts of Piaget (1945Piaget ( , 1965 and others (Foster, 1930;Fuxloch, 1930;Stone, 1965).…”

Section: Age Age-rangesmentioning

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The Scientific View of Sport

Baitsch¹,

Bock²,

Bolte³

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“…Benjamin (1932), Brown (1956), DeLucia (1960) and Rabban (1950) found that toys such as doll, buggy, dishes, beads and a purse are classified as feminine while a dump truck, carpentry tools, a gun and an erector set are classified as masculine. Knives, boats, planes, trucks and cement mixers are regarded by school children as masculine; dolls, cribs, dishes and nurses' equipment are regarded by school children as feminine (Foster, 1930;Rosenberg and Sutton-Smith, 1960;Vance and McCall, 1934). Walker (1964) and Rosenberg and Sutton-Smith (1959) (Brown, 1957).…”

Section: Socialization Pressures Associated With Sex-role Developmentmentioning

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Sex-role preferences in preschool children from five subcultures of the United States

Joshi¹

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Play Activities of Children in the First Six Grades

Cited by 22 publications

References 1 publication

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

Experimental investigations of childhood play.

The Scientific View of Sport

Sex-role preferences in preschool children from five subcultures of the United States

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