Fantasy Play in the Child of the Oedipal Stage of Development
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Authors
Boice, Connie Lynne
Issue Date
1968
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Thesis
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en_US
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The play that shall be studied here was observed in a local
nursery school over a period of six weeks, by one observer. The majority
of observations were done on four and five-year old children who
were in the "four-year old class". They were observed three hours
a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, during their "free play hour," which took place as soon as the children arrived at school. Three-year
olds were observed Tuesdays and Thursdays during the same hour.
They were not observed for the full six weeks, however, due to the
fact that they engaged in less imaginative play than did the four-year
olds. Information from twenty-three observations was used in
connection with the examples presented in this paper. Observations
were taken in a written descriptive form on the basis of the fantasy play Chat was taking place, rather than on a time sampling basis or
some other technique. Information concerning the histories of the
children was obtained from the teacher in an interview preceding
the observations. Another interview with the teacher was held after
the interpretations were applied to the observations, and her approval
was obtained as to both the nature and use of the observations and
possible interpretations. It should be noted that fictitious names
were given to all of the children in the examples in the text.
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iii, 56p.
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