Veraksa A.N. The good of fairytales

Veraksa A.N. The good of fairytales // Preschool Education Today. 2009, Issue 4 - p. 36-39.

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2009, 4

Aleksander N. Veraksa
Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Dr. Sci. (Psychology), Professor, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of the Laboratory of Child Psychology and Digital Socialization; Deputy Director of the Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplinary Research, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article, from psychoanalytical viewpoint, examines benefits of fairytales and demonstrates their importance as one of the means of child’s socialization. Using psychoanalytical approach and well-known fairytales as examples, the author illustrates why a fairytale fascinates children, is open and clear to them and fosters their development. A close look is also given to common mistakes that grownups make when reading a fairytale to a child.