ED385337 PS022599
Title: The Collaborative Construction of Pretend: Social Pretend Play
Functions. SUNY Series, Children Play in Society.
Author(s): Howes, Carollee; And Others
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-7914-0756-X
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: State University of New York Press, State University
Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 (paperback: ISBN-0-7914-0756-X, $19.95; hardcover:
ISBN-0-7914-0755-1).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; California
Journal Announcement: RIEDEC1995
This book
examines the developmental functions of social pretend play (SPP),
asserting that SPP is salient in the formation of both social interaction
skills and friendships from the toddler period into middle childhood.
Part 1 discusses the mastery of the communication of meaning in
SPP and presents three studies on the relationship between mothers
and toddlers in early symbolic play, the collaborative construction
of SPP between toddler-age partners, and the differences and similarities
between Mexican and American children's play dialogues. Part 2 focuses
on issues of control and compromise by negotiating SPP meanings
and scripts,
presenting two studies on mothers' beliefs about mediating peer
play and toddler-age children's peer networks and attachment security
and SPP negotiations. Part 3 examines issues of trust and intimacy
within SPP, presenting three studies on friendship and SPP, multiple
attachments and peer relationships in SPP, and self-disclosure in
the pretend play of physically and sexually abused children. (Contains
approximately 225 references.) (MDM)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior; Behavioral Science Research; Child
Abuse; Children; Cultural Differences; Early Childhood Education;
Friendship; Interpersonal Relationship; Mexicans; *Parent Child
Relationship; *Peer Relationship; *Pretend Play; Sexual Abuse; *Social
Development
