Dramatic Play in the Kindergarten

Designing dramatic play: story and game structure

Drama in games is created by the interplay of the narrative structure of story and the ludic structure of challenges. In this paper, we combine Csikszentmihalyi’s model of engagement and flow with Freytag’s pyramid, a model of narrative structure. Using this combination, we explore the dramatic structure of Halo: Combat Evolved, comparing ludic and narrative structures at each stage of the game...

assessing the dramatic potentialities for play adaptation, case study: “the pious woman” in attar’s ilāhī-nāma,

looking at the history of adaptation from literary sources in various kinds of worldwide dramatic arts such as cinema, television and theatre shows that adaptation can well fill the existing text-gaps in theatre and other forms of dramatic arts. in persian literature, although the literary texts aredescriptive, there are many works possess high dramatic potentials and may be used to enrich the ...

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

A playpen is a restrictive environment. In actual playpens, children have limited room to move and limited opportunities to explore. Children play with toys in playpens, but the range of possibilities is limited. In her book Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development, Marina explains that she uses the playpen “as a metaphor that conveys lack of freedom to experiment, lack of a...

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Em​ ​23​ ​de​ ​agosto ​ ​de​ ​2013,​ ​eu ​ ​encontrei ​ ​o​ ​presidente​ ​da​ ​Universidade​ ​Tsinghua, ​ ​a​ ​maior universidade​ ​de​ ​engenharia ​ ​na​ ​China. ​ ​Como ​ ​sou​ ​professor​ ​no​ ​Instituto ​ ​de​ ​Tecnologia ​ ​de Massachusetts ​ ​(MIT), ​ ​e​ ​a​ ​Tsinghua​ ​é​ ​conhecida ​ ​como ​ ​o​ ​“MIT​ ​da​ ​China”, ​ ​não ​ ​é​ ​de​ ​surpreender que​ ​nós ​ ​dois ​ ​nos ​ ​encontrásse...

The concept of task orientation in the analysis of play behavior of children entering kindergarten.