Children in the World of Allegory: the Key Role of Comparison Skills and Abstract Thinking

• Authors: Rozalina Engels-Kritidis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This publication shows the potential of pre-school age children to understand and use allegory, focusing specifically on the core of the ability to interpret the allegory of proverbs and sayings. A connection between comparison skills and allegory interpretation skills has been statistically proved, confirming that the image-based way of thinking is typical for the ages under research and allowing us to define visualization as a principal stage in the process of getting to the meaning of allegory. The publication also gives statistical arguments which support a connection between the development of the ability for abstract thinking and allegory interpretation skills, i.e. a child with better-developed abstract thinking ability will display a higher capacity for interpreting allegorical meanings.

Keywords

EN

allegory; pre-school age; proverbs and sayings; comparison skills; abstract thinking.

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Journal of Preschool and Elementary School Education
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 107-133

Contributors

author

Rozalina Engels-Kritidis

• “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia, Bulgaria

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