Psychology of play

D.B. El’konin (1971),Toward The Problem of Stages
in the Mental Development of Children
at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/elkonin/works/1971/stages.htm (from Voprosy psikhologii).

  • the role or (role-)play in children’s development
  • transferring meaning to an object to another (props)
  • social meaning of play

Published by lankoski

Petri Lankoski, D.Arts, is a Associate Professor in Game Studies at the school of Communication, Media and IT at the Södertörn University, Sweden. His research focuses on game design, game characters, role-playing, and playing experience. Petri has been concentrating on single-player video games but researched also (multi-player) pnp and live-action role-playing games. This blog focuses on his research on games and related things.

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