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Make‐believe play with the Internet of Toys: A case for multimodal playscapes

British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Abstract This study examines whether the Internet of Toys (IoToys) (de)limits children's make‐believe play and whether the functionality and manipulatives offered by the IoToys serve as motivational pleasure (tactile, virtual and visual) for children to engage in make ...
Ioanna Palaiologou   +2 more
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Pretense: The form and function of make-believe play

Developmental Review, 1989
Abstract This paper proposes that make-believe play expresses the young child's emerging capacity to engage in counterfactual or would-be thinking. Three important developments enable preschoolers to create joint make-believe worlds with others: the ability to (1) manage multiple roles as playwrights and actors, (2) invent novel plots, and (3 ...
Inge Bretherton
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Locutions and illlocutions in make-believe play

Journal of Pragmatics, 1984
Abstract An explication of the concept ‘make-believe play’ is proposed. This explication is applied in the classification of verbal expressions produced by children as part of their make-believe play into distinct function types. Various syntactic, semantic, logical, and pragmatic peculiarities characteristic of these types of locutions are analyzed ...
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Delay of Gratification and Make-Believe Play of Preschoolers

Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2005
Abstract This study examined the relationship between children's ability to delay gratification and time spent in make-believe play in a sample of 39 three-to five-year-old children. Delay of gratification was determined in an experimental situation (Mischel, 1974). Children's play was assessed using a teacher questionnaire, a mother interview, a child
Joanna J. Cemore, Joan E. Herwig
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Make-Believe Play: Wellspring for Development of Self-Regulation

2006
Abstract The early childhood years are a crucial time for the development of self-regulation — an array of complex mental capacities that includes impulse and emotion control, self-guidance of thought and behavior, planning, self-reliance, and socially responsible behavior.
LAURA E. BERK   +2 more
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Musical make-believe playing: three preschoolers collaboratively initiating play ‘in-between’

Early Years, 2015
This study presents an analysis of a video observation of three six-year-olds interacting in front of a synthesizer in a Swedish preschool and using a new music technology (MIROR-Impro). It investigates how a musical role-play unfolds as an intermediate activity when there is a malfunction with the set-up of the technology and how it recommences when ...
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