Re: [xmca] Developmental psychology and the production of a polished mud ball

From: Lars Hennig Rossen (lhrossen@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 10:07:01 PDT


Hi Kiyo,
this sounds really interesting; what struck me about the activity was how so
many different aspects of development was compressed into those hand fulls
of mud do you know if any of his work assessable in English or if there are
any public pages that describes his Ninja Project?
Lars

On 6/5/06, Kiyotaka Miyazaki <miyasan@waseda.jp> wrote:
>
> Lars,
>
> This prof. Kayo is my close friend. Yes, he is famous for this mud ball
> in Japan! And he is our play research expert. He studies play by
> playing himself with children in preschool, which makes him very unique
> in the Japanese developmental psychologists. He is studying
> imaginative, or pretend play in particular, and writing monograph (in
> Japanese) about one year extending Ninja play activities. It's quite
> nice.
> I forwarded your mail to him. If necessary, I will tell you his email
> address.
>
> Kiyo Miyazaki
> Waseda University, Japan.
>
> On 2006/06/06, at 3:17, Lars Hennig Rossen wrote:
>
> > XMCA'ers
> > here is an odd and interesting piece on developmental psychology,
> > culture
> > and mud balls (!)
> >
> > "In the field of developmental psychology up to now, play that
> > developed
> > children's imagination and creativity, such as role playing and
> > drawing, was
> > deemed important. But Professor Kayo is searching for whether
> > developmental
> > psychology has overlooked something very important: the experimentation
> > children undertake in everyday activities like eating, getting
> > dressed, and
> > sleeping. He feels that making shiny mud balls is a good way of
> > searching
> > for the essence of children's play. Kayo believes that the answers lie
> > within the hearts of children, and he continues to visit the preschool
> > once
> > a week".
> >
> > http://web-japan.org/trends01/article/011005sci_r.html
> >
> > Lars
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