Child's Play and Creativity Development

Pre-requisites: -

Course objectives: Understanding the nature of play and its functions; Familiarization with the types of child’s plays and the ways of child’s play cultivation and creativity stimulation; Training for play monitoring, understanding and analysing the child’s creativity and the assessment of the quality of toys.

Course description: Characteristics of the play – phenotypic and structural features; ontogenesis and phylogenesis of the play, play and cultures in which it appears, classical and modern play theories, classification of the play; play and emotions, play and identity, play and cognitive functions, play and learning, play and metaphor, play and creativity; Children’s linguistic play; play as a creativity prototype; general conditions for play and creativity stimulation; play cultivation using the art media; play cultivation using the scientific media; types of child creativity and particularities of stimulation; the roles of educators in programmes oriented to child and play; child’s linguistic creativity as a process; experiences from the theory and practice; the relation between play, imagination and story in child’s linguistic creativity; the role of toys in the life of child; the history of toys’ origin in modern society; criteria for the assessment of the quality of toys; classification of plays and toys; development trends of plays and toys. Practical course: field research (play and creativity in kindergarten; analysis of toy quality)

Learning Outcomes: Students understand the importance and functions of child’s play, they can differentiate the types of play; develop programmes for play cultivation and creativity stimulation.

Literature/Reading:

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• Erikson, E., Igra, rad i razvoj, Predškolsko dete, 1972, 2-3, str. 173-186
• Marjanović, A., Igra i stvaralaštvo, Predškolsko dete, 1975, 1-2: 1-14;
• Marjanović, A., R. Ivanović, S. Janković, S. Gašić-Pavišić, Dečje jezičke igre, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 1990, str. 11-71, 93-159
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• Duran, M. i dr., Simbolička igra i stvralaštvo, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 1988, str. 14-22
• Saton-Smit, B., Igračke i kultura, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 1988, str. 99-123, 142-178
• Marjanović, A., Stvaralaštvo, igra i vaspitanje predškolskog deteta, Predškolsko dete, 1979, 1-2, str. 3-31