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Ethnology aspects of childs play

In the paper author problematizes the concept of enculturation as a process of gaining personal cultural identity. She gives the proper focus on the way of transmitting cutural attainments from the olders to the youngsters. In cultural attainments that are more complicated, transmittion is only possible through interference. One of the most powerfull elements of cultural transmittion developes through education, or in other words,through cultivation as an inerference process.Through it, man gains experience and becomes trained for active participation of acception and creation of it's own culture. The process of enculturation begins with birth.Gaining knowledge is a total experience for pre-school child, an act of development which enables establisment in chaos caused by various collections of impressions. Child needs chain of events in adequate conditions in order that cultural transmittion has effect. Pre-school institutional effect is determined as powerfull agent of enculturation and educational process which takes place in enculturation is determined as instrument of cultural transmition. Cultural enculturation is the destiny of the 21-st century child. Contemporary childhood and various way of children's upbringinig characterizes lack of gaining direct experience about various phenomenons that child confronts with in his childhood.That is the reason why is confronting with elements of culture and tradition arched to the minimum and almoust maximally inverted to the indirect method of cognition. In Croatian pre-school practice humanistic orientated conception of pre-school institution becomes recognized. For this kind of conception, educational process is understood as holistic, integral system made according to the child and for the child. It also winns recognition for play as basic child's activity which leads to cognition and as powerfull factor in development.The flexibility of humanistically orientated curicullum enables entering various approaches and ways of organizing the process of enculturation. In this work the author gives one concept of how urban child learns his culture through the system of play-like activities which are based on growing-up conception by L.Malagguzzi.

ethnology; play; cultural identity

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