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Games and the contradictions of the childhood

2008; University of Valladolid; Linguagem: Inglês

1989-7200

J. Schwier,

Social Representations and Identity

espanolEste articulo trata el tema de hasta que punto los juegos presentan un medio eficiente en el desarrollo en los ultimos anos de la infancia (aproximadamente entre 8 y 12 anos). Me gustaria mostrar algunas tendencias centrales del desarrollo contemporaneo de la infancia y de los cambios en su vida cotidiana. Aunque los cambios en la infancia se describen frecuentemente como una perdida de la intimidad, espontaneidad y sociabilidad, en este articulo se prestara atencion a las oportunidades que podria abrir este proceso para un nuevo equilibrio entre la individualidad y la sociabilidad, entre la intimidad y la sociedad. A modo de revision, me gustaria presentar la concepcion intersubjetiva-teorica de George Herbert Mead como una linea de argumentacion que revela que las funciones logica y de desarrollo de los juegos no pueden intercambiarse a voluntad. Finalmente, se esbozaran algunas consecuencias para los juegos en las escuelas y clubes deportivos. EnglishThis paper attempts to look into the question of up to what extent games present an efficient medium in the development process of children in the late schoolchild age (approximately between the 8th and 12th year of age). I would like to dispute at the outset of some central tendencies of modern childhood developments and of the changes in the everyday life of children. While the realized change in childhood often has been described as a loss of intimacy, spontaneity, initiative and sociability, in this paper attention is called to the potential chances of this process that might open up some possibilities to a new balancing of the relation between individuality and sociability, between intimacy and society. In form of a review, I would like to trace George Herbert Mead?s intersubjective-theoretical conception as a second line of argumentation for revealing the developmental-logical function of games which is not interchangeable at will. Finally the consequences for the subject matter of games at school and sport clubs are to be outlined.