The other bonus is that, unlike green vegetables, children can often be persuaded to read fantasy without the adults in their lives resorting to bribery. Festival of Social Science — Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Victoria Flanagan , Macquarie University.
But why is this the case? What exactly does fantasy offer to young readers? Literature Books Children's literature Fantasy literature. For references please visit parenta. She believes that all children deserve practitioners who are inspiring, dynamic, reflective and committed to improving on their current best. Tamsin particularly enjoys planning and delivering training and supporting early years practitioners and teachers to improve outcomes for young children.
You can contact Tamsin via Twitter tamsingrimmer, her Facebook page , website or email info tamsingrimmer. Your email address will not be published. Facebook Twitter. Keeping it real? The importance of fantasy play in child development by Admin May 1, Guest Authors 0 comments. There are many noted benefits for children engaging in this type of fantasy and make-believe play. It: Encourages imagination and creativity.
Enables children to deal with real life scenarios in a safe environment. Provides an opportunity for children to play games involving social rules, cooperation and collaboration. Encourages children to empathise with others. Offers children a place to escape from the real world. Usually involves a narrative and acts as a type of therapy as children talk through scenarios and possibilities.
Helps children to deal with changes in their lives. Allows children an element of control in their lives - e. Provides an opportunity for children to negotiate roles and understand rules and boundaries.
Fantasy is vital for the human mind. It begins as the psychological process by which a child learns to fill the gaps between knowledge, reality and experience, and becomes a vital adult coping mechanism. When we were small children, trying to get to sleep, a creaking floorboard was really spooky.
Who or what could be making the noise? The only way to make sense of the experience, for which there was no "certain"answer, was to fantasise: there's a pirate or a burglar, or more probably a crocodile under the bed. Children scare themselves silly like this, but while they have no knowledge of central heating pipes swelling, they have to engage with make-believe to bridge the gap between experience and knowledge. As time passes and children learn about the effect of heat on pipes and floorboard, they will often prefer the crocodile theory.
Fear, within a safe context, is fun. They're reading! And yet Tolkien once insisted in his essay "On Fairy Stories" that Fantasy is a "human right. The advantages of reading Fantasy come from the way it cultivates imagination and encourages readers to think outside the box. It allows us to escape to a Secondary World and then to explore human values within that world. It clarifies the human condition and captures the essence of our deepest emotions, dreams, hopes, and fears.
I would venture to guess that all of us adults included , at times feel powerless and manipulated by situations that are out of our control.
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