Life is Dialogic

The single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life is the open-ended dialogue. Life by its very nature is dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree, and so forth. In this dialogue a person...

In Play, Object’s Meaning is Separated

In play a child spontaneously makes use of his ability to separate meaningfrom an object without knowing he is doing it, just as he does not know heis speaking in prose but talks without paying attention to the words.(Vygotsky, 1978, p....

Proyer’s Play Forms

Playfulness: Proyer’s (2015) OLIW: other-directed, lighthearted, intellectual, whimsical Proyer’s new structural model of playfulness consists of four facets: Other-directed (O) enjoying to play with others; using ones playfulness to make social relations...