Re: Play

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:35:47 +0100

Hello Pentti

Actually you are asking a question that I hoped would arise in relation to
the episode I gave about little Arne and the fake baby-bottle.

>My problem in following the tides of discussion is the
>concept of play. If we have an episode (an excellent one) of
>a child=B4s activity is it a description of play?

I think the example is very interesting in this respect, with its captured
pause of puzzling as the little fellow has to abandon one project with the
bottle and then invents another. But is this play? Does the bottle become a
toy? Does he have a Koehlerian insight?

Eva