Re: Paper of potential interest

From: Artin Goncu (goncu@uic.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 21 2005 - 11:01:04 PST


Here you go!

At 06:29 PM 3/20/2005 -0300, you wrote:
>
> Hi Artin
> your paper interested me very much.
> how can I read the full text?
> thank you in advance.
> Maria
>
> Dra. Maria Judith Sucupira da Costa Lins
> Faculdade de Educacao
> Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ
> Brasil
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>> Hi All:
>> Anthony Perone and I have a new paper entitled "Pretend play as a life-sapn
>> activity." The abstract is below, and the paper is available
>> electronically. If you like a copy, please let me know of the net. Thanks,
>> Artin
>> Arguing against the dominant developmental theories (e.g., Piaget, 1945;
>> Vygotsky, 1978) stating that pretend play is limited to early childhood, we
>> illustrate that pretend play is an adaptive human activity of adulthood as
>> well as childhood. We advance this argument on three levels. First, we
>> offer an analysis of why the discipline of developmental psychology in the
>> Western world considered play only as an activity of childhood by neglecting
>> to explore whether or how pretend play exists during adulthood. Second, we
>> discuss the similarities between adult improvisational theater and
>> children’s pretend play in illustrating our thesis that pretend continues to
>> exist during adulthood. In this discussion, we focus on similarities on the
>> definitions, psychological origins, social functions, and developmental
>> consequences of pretend play and adult improvisation. Finally, we end the
>> article with educational implications of conceptualizing pretend play as a
>> life-span activity and offer directions for future research.
>>
>> Artin Goncu, Ph.D
>> Professor
>> College of Education M/C 147
>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>> 1040 W. Harrison St.,
>> Chicago, IL 60607
>> (312) 996-5259
>> Fax (312) 996-6400
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Artin Goncu, Ph.D
Professor
College of Education M/C 147
University of Illinois at Chicago
1040 W. Harrison St.,
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 996-5259
Fax (312) 996-6400



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