Overview Of The Playground Games

By Mayra Pierce


Chimpanzees and other primates have the ability to use representations, for example, some use verbal communication as part of a form of symbolic play. Games played by chimpanzees have the same characteristics as that of all mammals. The emergence of symbolic play occurs exclusively in human children, along with the symbolic language that is intrinsically inherent to their God given nature(the playground games).

Game are considered as part of human experience and present in all cultures. They are inherently a human activity. All of us have learned to relate to our family, social and cultural environment through play. It's a rich, broad, versatile and ambivalent concept that involves a a various categorizations. Many definitions have been stated about game as well, the dictionary of Royal Academy sees it as a recreational exercise rules under which it won or lost. However the polysemy of this and the subjectivity of various authors imply that any definition is only a partial approach to this entertaining phenomenon.

Game of marbles (fingernail ball) are excellent examples of children's game with rules, they are playable by 6 years of age. In history of human species, formal game appeared as a result of sedentary need for mental and physical development. In formal game the object of each game is defined and governed by the rules themselves, not representations. Thanks to this ability to set rules and play within the species has been able to build key game such as democracy, religion and science.

Game is a necessary activity for humans to attach great importance to social sphere, since it allows testing certain social behaviors; in turn be used to acquire and develop intellectual, motor, and affective capacities tool and all this must be done so willingly, feeling no obligation of any kind, and all activities required to have time and space to do it.

Popular games are closely linked to activities of ordinary people, and over time have passed from parents to children. In most of source is unknown: they simply born of need of man to play, ie it is spontaneous, creative and highly motivating activities. The rule is very variable, and can change from one geographical area to another with ease; They can even be known by different names depending on where you practice.

Popular game often have few rules, which are usually simple, and they all kinds of materials are used, without having to be specific to game itself. They all have their objectives and a certain way of carrying them out: chase, throwing an object at a given site, conquer territory, retain or win an item, etc. His practice has no significance beyond game itself, is not institutionalized, and the big objective is to have fun.

Over time, some have grown into a major support within physical education classes to develop different physical abilities and motor skills, or serve as a basis for other game and sports. Popular game can serve as an educational tool in classroom in various fields and songs and lyrics features of each of periods shown. This typology can be a fun strategy that people who perform them learn while having fun.

Game is synonymous with pleasure, fun, gaiety, entertainment, but also plays the child to discover, know, know others and their environment. In non-social animals play occurs mainly during childhood as a means of psychomotor learning or experimentation and in adulthood as a behavior related to reproduction. In gregarious animals kept these play behaviors and associated social game to acquisition of status, establishing roles and add group relationship.




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