What I wondered about is how in the world we could do such activities at our
sites without
kids throwing mud for fun!!
mike
On 6/6/06, Lars Hennig Rossen <lhrossen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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