Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Vera Barros de. The rhythmic nature of play and the emergence of symbolic manifestations. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.91, pp. 450-464. ISSN 1415-711X.

The evolutionary study of children playing, due to its great complexity and scope, was and continues being an object of research and reflection in different areas of Psychology. This article presents theoretical considerations about this evolution with a focus on the rhythmic and temporal nature present in this evolution. It is based on the epistemological reading, which monitors the transition of the sensorimotor play to the symbolic one, with the gradual emergence of semiotic manifestations and the consequent expansion of the time lived, from the present to past and future, with the resources of language and of memory. Recent studies on Chronobiology are presented, exposing its relevance to Psychology and relating them to research and studies on Play. The focus is on the rhythm and time spent for the constitution of personal and social awareness, through the ludic. It relates the endogenous character of biological rhythmicity to the vision of the human being as a dynamic, historical and interactive system. It highlights the great and irreplaceable importance of the free and self-motivated play of children, in space and time, since their early years, as an original action and regulatory instrument of their balance and current happiness, as well as an architect of their future

Keywords : Playing; Chronobiology; Rhythm; Symbol.

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