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| 0602-6056-01 | Child?s Play: The Role of Toys, Games and Plays in Children?s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Child’s Play: The Role of Toys, Games and Plays in Children’s
and Young Adults’ Literature
Dr. Rima Shikhmanter
Toys, games and plays appear frequently in children's and young adults’ literature: kids amusing themselves with toys and various objects, competing with one another, and engaging in detective work, fantasy and imagination, and word games. They play with one another or alone, in the house or outside; they play with adults and watch adult playing. On occasion, the boundaries between reality and play are blurred, children imitating adult behavior or using games to undermine adult authority.
This course examines children’s/young adult literature in which playing serves a key role. Analyzing the cultural and educational function of such scenes, it looks at the use of dolls, the way in which games of imagination shape the child’s inner world, the survival games that are so prevalent in contemporary literature, etc. These are discussed in light of the central role given to play in cultural discourse and the non-literary games children play in reality.
The texts include both Israeli and translated material, covering such authors as A.A. Milne, Ferenc Molnár, Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Ayin Hillel, Uri Orlev, Nurit Zarchi, Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), and others. These will be read through the prism of theories of play that have developed within various disciplines: anthropology, psychology, developmental psychology, cultural studies, sociobiology, history, and economics.
and Young Adults’ Literature
Dr. Rima Shikhmanter
Toys, games and plays appear frequently in children's and young adults’ literature: kids amusing themselves with toys and various objects, competing with one another, and engaging in detective work, fantasy and imagination, and word games. They play with one another or alone, in the house or outside; they play with adults and watch adult playing. On occasion, the boundaries between reality and play are blurred, children imitating adult behavior or using games to undermine adult authority.
This course examines children’s/young adult literature in which playing serves a key role. Analyzing the cultural and educational function of such scenes, it looks at the use of dolls, the way in which games of imagination shape the child’s inner world, the survival games that are so prevalent in contemporary literature, etc. These are discussed in light of the central role given to play in cultural discourse and the non-literary games children play in reality.
The texts include both Israeli and translated material, covering such authors as A.A. Milne, Ferenc Molnár, Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Ayin Hillel, Uri Orlev, Nurit Zarchi, Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), and others. These will be read through the prism of theories of play that have developed within various disciplines: anthropology, psychology, developmental psychology, cultural studies, sociobiology, history, and economics.