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Attitudes och Values toward Play and Toys – Reflections over Time

Attitudes och Values toward Play and Toys – Reflections over Time. Anette Sandberg and Tuula Vuorinen Mälardalen University Department of Social Science. A Human Being is Always a Product of its´ Time and Enviroment - a sociocultural perspective. Vygotsky (1930; 1990), Säljö (2000).

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Attitudes och Values toward Play and Toys – Reflections over Time

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  1. Attitudesoch Values toward Play and Toys – Reflections over Time Anette Sandberg and Tuula Vuorinen Mälardalen University Department of Social Science

  2. A Human Being is Always a Product of its´ Time and Enviroment- a sociocultural perspective Vygotsky (1930; 1990), Säljö (2000)

  3. The Purpose of this Study is to Describe and Analyze Play through a Contemporary Historical Perspective.

  4. This study is based on interviews with 111 female preschoolteachers´and students´.

  5. Results Areas reflected in external conditions of play and /or in play content Increased welfare Women´s entry into working life Urbanization Secularization Increased range of media

  6. Values and Attitudes towards Childrens´Play Today ? Childrens´ play today wereoftendescribed from a deficiencyperspectivee.g. there is a lack of time for play, there is a lack of fantasy and imaginationwithin the play and play is oftenseen as toinspired by media. Whatopportunitiesdochildrenhave to influence the contents of activities in preschoolwhenpreschoolteachers look uponchildrensownculturalactivities and values from a deficienyperspective? ,

  7. Influence of the Child • The pre-school provides the foundations for children to understand what democracy is. /… / The needs and interests which children themselves express in different ways should provide the foundation for shaping the environment and planning pedagogical activities. • The work-team should /…/ • prepare the children for participating in and sharing the responsibilities, rights and obligations that apply in a democratic society. • Curriculum for the pre-school, Lpfö 98, (p.11-12)

  8. For more information contact: anette.sandberg@mdh.se tuula.vuorinen@mdh.se

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