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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"imaginative play"”.
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Imaginative play with blended reality characters
… of its unique blended physical and digital play context and the evaluation of its impact on children's play are the contents of this thesis. A play test study with thirty-four children aged three and a half to seven was conducted using non-reactive, unobtrusive observational methods and a …
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The Effect of Varying Degrees of Encapsulation on Verbal Communication, Tarry Time, and Imaginative Play Behaviors of Young Children
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unruly play in picture books
<p><strong>This essay defines unruly and imaginative play based on a variety of interdisciplinary sources. The study examines a selection of children’s picture books that showcase a kind of play that defies normative narrative pacing, power dynamics, and narrative sequence. Future research is …
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My pins are my dreams : Pinterest, collective daydreams, and the aspirational gap
… desires for products and engage in hedonistic imaginative play, the socially-networked nature of Pinterest allows a new type of malleable, global and taste-based community to develop that can engage in collective imaginative play.
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Making Space for Daydreams
… to daydreaming. By engaging in an act of imaginative play, I collaborated with my inner child and benefited from a strengthened sense of self-identity. Through acts of obscuring in the artwork I create allowances for imagination and invite the viewer to reflect on their own experiences and …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… practice, while analyzing the benefits of imaginative play and fantasy in readers by Gianni Rodari and J.R.R. Tolkien, I find the value of the liminal nature of the imaginary friend in children’s literature. Ultimately, I argue for its function as a doorway for young readers to engage with …
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Networked Playscapes : redefining the playground
… it is the people that make the city and that playing is central to being human. Digital or physical, play is an act of creation and appropriation, a respite in a world geared towards consumption, efficiency and technological determinism. Simultaneously, playgrounds are suffering abandonment. …
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Pretend Play at Home: Creating An Educationally Enriched Environment for Emergent Literacy Among Preschool-Aged Children
This thesis will illustrate how pretend play can be used in the home for educational purposes. The major emphasis of the work will be emergent literacy, however, application principles can be applied in all subject areas. Parents who desire to expand their child's literacy skills while exposing the …