Saturday, November 8, 2014

Guide To The Playground Games

By Mayra Pierce


Games have a symbolic function, they serve as symbols that help create contexts, anticipate situations, plan future actions or interpret reality. Game favors the process of enculturation and arises naturally. It is indispensable for psychomotor, intellectual, emotional and social development, as skills develop with it and children learn to respect rules and have goals and objectives (the playground games).

Game are considered as part of human experience and present in all cultures. They are inherently a human activity. All of us have learned to relate to our family, social and cultural environment through play. It's a rich, broad, versatile and ambivalent concept that involves a a various categorizations. Many definitions have been stated about game as well, the dictionary of Royal Academy sees it as a recreational exercise rules under which it won or lost. However the polysemy of this and the subjectivity of various authors imply that any definition is only a partial approach to this entertaining phenomenon.

Game of marbles (fingernail ball) are excellent examples of children's game with rules, they are playable by 6 years of age. In history of human species, formal game appeared as a result of sedentary need for mental and physical development. In formal game the object of each game is defined and governed by the rules themselves, not representations. Thanks to this ability to set rules and play within the species has been able to build key game such as democracy, religion and science.

They are considered a free for all activity: a voluntary pastime, no one is forced to play. The concept resides in a space with few limitations and in a pre-established time constraints. Games have an uncertain character, they function as a creative, spontaneous and original activity, the outcome of each game fluctuates, which motivates the presence of pleasant uncertainty that captivates us all.

Popular games are closely linked to activities of ordinary people, and over time have passed from parents to children. In most of source is unknown: they simply born of need of man to play, ie it is spontaneous, creative and highly motivating activities. The rule is very variable, and can change from one geographical area to another with ease; They can even be known by different names depending on where you practice.

Expanding the memory and attention by stimuli that are generated. Foster runout thought. Develop imagination and creativity and the distinction between fantasy and reality. Promote the development of language and abstract thought. Game plays in mammals. Mammals play to learn. In fact the main feature of game is to learn.

Mammals are characterized by an evolved brain, long childhood, parental care, nursing pups, hunt group, social division and non-genetic work. Mammals play to hunt in a group, define hierarchies, exploration, division of labor, among others. Interaction between mammals (dogs, cats, water, primates) is based on imitation and exploration by trial and error. In some mammals there is a total lack of symbolic play.

They are more solemn game also have been transmitted from generation to generation, but its origins date back to very ancient times. They have not only passed from father to son, but in its preservation and dissemination have had much to see the institutions and organizations that were concerned that would not be lost with the passage of time. They are closely linked to history, culture and traditions of country, a region or a nation. Its rules are similar, regardless of where they are developed.




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