出版社：Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
摘要：Cultural-historical theory makes claims about the place of play in children's development and its relationship to epoch-typical forms of development. This paper reports from a study that is attempting to understand the changing developmental context for young children in digital consumerist cultures and the consequences of this for kindergarten curriculum. Five children from kindergartens in Melbourne, Australia, were videotaped engaging with a series of artefacts on a continuum from traditional/generic through to digital-consumerist. The children were found to engage with the artefacts in ways that are largely consistent with existing perspectives on play. However, problem solving predominated with the traditional toys, whilst children's preexisting knowledge was much more apparent in consumerist and digital-consumerist play. The paper concludes that teachers need to incorporate changing understandings about the potential of digital-consumerist artefacts to enhance play in early childhood education into their curriculum decision making, thereby contributing to changes in the culture of kindergartens and in children's general cultural formation.
关键词：Play; digital technologies; consumption; cultural-historical theory
