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Download full textWitchel, Robert – 1974
Fantasy activities are part of everyday experience. The author imagines hugging or touching someone, daydreams about sitting on a bench or riverbank, visualizes standing up during a boring meeting and shouting "let's wake up and do something!" Fantasy is also a tool that can be used in experimenting with new behavior, becoming more aware…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Processes, Counseling Theories, Creative Thinking
Peer reviewedSherratt, Dave – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
A study examined whether it was possible to teach five children (ages 5-6) with autism to use symbolic pretend play. The intervention used structure, affect, and repetition and progressively faded out the structuring over three phases. All of the children were able to use some symbolic acts within play. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Development, Children, Creativity
Peer reviewedCain, Beverlyn; Bohrer, Cynthia – Young Children, 1997
Studied preschool children's inability to distinguish fantasy from fact utilizing the case of the popular movie Jurassic Park and the subsequent false information children obtained about dinosaurs. Described attempts made by teachers to address the resultant aggressive behavior and false knowledge gained and replace it with constructive knowledge.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Audience Response, Behavior Development, Child Behavior
McLoyd, Vonnie; And Others – 1980
A study, as yet unfinished, sought to replicate, expand, and provide preliminary answers to questions raised in previous research on the development of fantasy play by black children as functions of age, sex, income level, and other environmental factors. Fantasy play involves the attribution to persons, objects, materials, or situations of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Black Youth, Child Development
Peer reviewedElbers, Ed – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Examines the growth of understanding of citizenship in young children, particularly children's grasp of rules of school life. Explores development of citizenship by studying children's representations of school life and adult-child relationships in pretend play. Touches upon Dewey's, Piaget's, and Vygotsky's theories of child development. (BGC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Citizen Role
Shulkin, Sunny; And Others – 1979
This workshop module is designed to train teachers to use fantasy techniques as a means of strengthening their students' nonsexist behaviors. Workshop activities include a discussion on the rationale for using daydreams to modify behavior and attitudes and the exploration of the experience of a guided daydream. Guidelines are provided for teachers…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Modification, Creative Thinking, Cybernetics
