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Direct linkAlcock, Sophie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
This paper draws on research exploring young children's playful and humorous communication. It explores how playful activity mediates and connects children in complex activity systems where imagination, cognition, and consciousness become distributed across individuals. Children's playfulness is mediated and distributed via artefacts (tools, signs…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Young Children, Communication (Thought Transfer)
