Claire Golomb

The Creation of Imaginary Worlds

The Role of Art, Magic and Dreams in Child Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alongside everyday reality, the young child develops a rich imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic. This book charts the imaginative development of children, conveying the importance of art-making in childhood years, and highlighting the potential that imaginative behaviors hold for development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781849058520
• ISBN-10: 1849058520
• Artikelnr.: 32244136

Autorenporträt

Claire Golomb is a Professor Emerita of the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. For over 40 years she taught courses on child development to undergraduate and graduate students of psychology. Her research during those years focused on symbol formation in child art, make-believe play, story construction and the role of gender in those domains. She resides in Waban, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates. List of Figures. Preface. 1. The Evolution of Child Art.
Representational art and early models. Child art blossoms. The
socio-cultural milieu. 2. Play: A Wellspring of the Imagination.
Antecedents and the emergence of pretense behavior. Symbolic play.
Make-belief play flourishes. The socio-cultural milieu. Play therapy. The
school-age child and beyond. 3. Between Fantasy and Fiction. Dreams.
Daydreaming or waking fantasy. Story telling. Fairytales. Magic. Concluding
comments. 4. Epilogue. Notes. Further Reading. Index.