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Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child
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In speaking of play and its role in the preschooler's development, we are concerned with two fundamental questions: first, how play itself arises in development — its origin and genesis; second, the role of this developmental activity, which we call play, as a form of development in the child of preschool age. Is play the leading form of activity for a child of this age, or is it simply the predominant form?
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- Authors
- Vygotsky, L. S.
- Venue
- Soviet Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1967-04
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 6-18
- ISSN
- 0038-5751 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2175857708
- Cited by
- 2,465
- References
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- FWCI
- 0.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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