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Joseph, Michael; Ramani, Esther; Tlowane, Mapelo; Mashatole, Abram – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014
The extensive empirical research inspired by Piaget and Vygotsky's theories of make-believe play has been criticised for restricting data to Western, urban, middle-class children. We seek to redress this bias by researching the traditional black South African Pedi children's game Masekitlana. Our data relies on embodied memories enacted by Mapelo…
Descriptors: Play, Criticism, Ethnography, Blacks
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Pramling, Niklas; Norlander, Torsten; Archer, Trevor – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2003
Examined 6-, 9-, and 14-year-olds' imagination of the unknown within a storytelling context. Performed phenomenological analysis of the two youngest groups' drawings and the oldest group's story on the "heffalump" theme. Derived eight categories providing an image-analysis of the concept of the "unknown" structured as "something-otherwise," that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development