Friday, 21 November 2014

Guide To 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).

Games are a right. According to Declaration of Rights of Child, adopted by the UN General Assembly, The child shall have full opportunity for play and recreation, which should be directed to same purposes as education; society and the public authorities shall endeavor to promote the enjoyment of this right. Game is not only a form of entertainment but also the best way of learning, children learn to cope with various situations they will face throughout their lives.

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 is a necessary activity for humans to attach great importance to social sphere, since it allows testing certain social behaviors; in turn be used to acquire and develop intellectual, motor, and affective capacities tool and all this must be done so willingly, feeling no obligation of any kind, and all activities required to have time and space to do it.

Popular games are closely linked to activities of ordinary people, and over time have passed from parents to children. In most of source is unknown: they simply born of need of man to play, ie it is spontaneous, creative and highly motivating activities. The rule is very variable, and can change from one geographical area to another with ease; They can even be known by different names depending on where you practice.

Expanding the memory and attention by stimuli that are generated. Foster runout thought. Develop imagination and creativity and the distinction between fantasy and reality. Promote the development of language and abstract thought. Game plays in mammals. Mammals play to learn. In fact the main feature of game is to learn.

Game universal, ie, that people of all cultures have always played. Many game are repeated in most societies. It present in history of mankind despite the difficulties at certain times to play, and the first industrial societies. Evolves according to age of players and has different characteristics depending on the culture in which it studied.

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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