Kudryavzev V.T. Child play and development of child’s imagination: a view from the perspective of Cultural-historical psychology

Kudryavzev V.T. Child play and development of child’s imagination: a view from the perspective of Cultural-historical psychology // Preschool Education Today. 2011, Issue 1 - p. 32-43.

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2011, 1

Vladimir T. Kudryavzev
Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of Department of Theory and History of L. S. Vygotsky Institute of Psychology of Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

The fact that play and development of imagination are, by definition and even by nature, are interconnected is known to every student of psychology. However, their connection is not easily recognizable at the first glance. Even though the first stones in the foundation of this problem were laid by philosophical-psychological works on imagination and play written by the wide spectrum of authors ranging from I. Kant to J. Selly, its first solid theoretical base was constructed within L.S. Vygotsky’s neoclassical cultural-historical approach, where for the first time this problem was viewed from the perspective of child’s personality and its development.