Constructive Empathizing – Educational Competence in the Light of Child’s Play

• Authors: Lech Kaczmarczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Pre-school play is an important moment in a child’s development.  Caretakers play an important role during play. This article presents a structure of educational competence called “constructive empathizing” or “invitingaccompanying competence”. A caretaker’s special task during child’s play is conversion between the third-person knowledge and a subjective, autotelic interaction. The caretaker’s constructive empathizing during a child’s play determines the child’s social and moral development, it helps the child to turn play into work, as a sign of higher spontaneous understanding of cultural norms standing behind cultural correctness actions. Finally, it is evidence of dynamic interaction between abstract-concrete thinking, with the child learning from the caretaker.

Keywords

EN

pretend play; competence; empathy; zone of proximal development; moral development

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 82-90

Dates

published

2013-02-01

Contributors

author

Lech Kaczmarczyk

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2013.1.6