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Direct linkEngel, Susan – Cognitive Development, 2005
This paper advances the hypothesis that young children use narrative play and stories to construct two types of fiction, the worlds of "what is" and "what if." Heinz Werner's conceptualization of children's spheres of reality, in which actions, symbols, and events are constructed in particular ways, is used as a theoretical framework for…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Young Children, Play, Narration
