Child Culture - Play Culture
The concept Children's Culture refers to two different types of cultural manifestation.
1. The cultural products made for children mainly by adults in different classical and medias, such as children?s literature, toys, TV and computergames.
2. Children's oral culture and play culture produced and performed by children and transmitted within the frames of a special type of social network. This culture includes aesthetic expressions such as games, tales, songs and a variety of other activities which play an important role in children?s lives and development. The paper describes these two types of child culture and their interplay and has its focus in outlining the field and establishing a framework for the understanding of play culture, children?s lore and other symbolic aesthetic forms of expression.
The concept Children's Culture refers to two different types of cultural manifestation.
1. The cultural products made for children mainly by adults in different classical and medias, such as children?s literature, toys, TV and computergames.
2. Children's oral culture and play culture produced and performed by children and transmitted within the frames of a special type of social network. This culture includes aesthetic expressions such as games, tales, songs and a variety of other activities which play an important role in children?s lives and development. The paper describes these two types of child culture and their interplay and has its focus in outlining the field and establishing a framework for the understanding of play culture, children?s lore and other symbolic aesthetic forms of expression.
