In pretend play the child behaves beyond her average age and daily behaviour¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1997 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Vygotsky claimed that in play the child always behaves beyond his average age and above his daily behaviour, as though a head taller than himself. → Seng 1997

Evidence¶

Seng 1997¶

Seng, Seok-Hoon. (1997). Zone of Proximal Development and the World of the Child. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED416957

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical claim reported in this review paper, attributed to Vygotsky (1978), that play creates a ZPD in which the child performs above her daily level. The paper offers this as Vygotsky's assertion, not as an empirical test.

"In play the child always behaves beyond his average age and above his daily behaviour; In play it is as though the child were a head taller than himself ."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• High-quality pretend play is an important facilitator of perspective taking and later abstract thought — related
• Children, unlike animals, can imitate actions beyond their independent capabilities and profit from instruction — related
• Middle-school students progress through zones of mathematical play in a designed digital game, taking varied conceptual paths to the same goal — a narrower finding that bears on this claim