Citation

Kalliala M. International Journal of Phytoremediation 2002; 21(1): 7-28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002)

DOI

10.1080/13502930285208811

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The foremost aim of this research is to discover how time and culture are reflected in children's play culture. The study's contextual framework has been based upon the changing roles of childhood and adulthood. Play culture is dealt with as viewed from the perspective of 23 six-year-old children (of middle-class backgrounds), who have grown up in Helsinki. The primary material consists of interviews and observations carried out both in homes and in day care centres. The results show that the dependency of play on time and culture may be traced from the microlevel of children's play culture to the macrolevel of profound changes and, in particular, the changing roles of children and adults. The change may be described with two metaphors. 'Out of the garden' stands for open competition and the adultomorphic tendencies of today, whereas 'a little piece of land' expresses children's unique persistence in creating their own play culture. © 2002, EECERA.

Language: en

Keywords

Changing roles of children and adults; Culture of play; Play; Social change