Scope (place)
In the sense of play , play education and play science, playroom refers to a location that is intended for the purpose of play and usually also invites you to do so with facilities and play equipment that are conducive to play, for example play corners, play rooms, children's rooms , play halls , playgrounds , sports fields or toy libraries (collections of Play).
Characteristic
Places for playing can be found both in covered, weather-protected indoor spaces and in outdoor areas. You can of child employment (eg. As play areas), the leisure recreation (z. B. playgrounds), sports (eg. As table tennis rooms) or educational (eg. As play areas ) serve purposes.
Playrooms as interiors
Nursery , play room , game rooms , toy libraries , Spielotheken , casinos , billiards rooms , table tennis rooms are typical locations for playing in a relatively small interiors. As they are protected from the weather, they can also be furnished with sensitive and valuable game items, such as pool tables or computers . Here you can play in any weather and even in the dark.
Outdoor play areas
- Signs of a play area for children in traffic
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Beginning of the restricted traffic area
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end of the restricted traffic area
Play streets marked by traffic signs or signposted playgrounds and sports fields are the most frequently encountered play areas in outdoor areas. As a rule, these are artificially created reserves in residential areas, which are intended to enable the children in the area, protected from traffic hazards and adult assaults, to play and meet neighboring children undisturbed or to give space to play the big sports games. The children's games are almost always screened off from the traffic of the adults by fences and visual obstacles. Signs give rules of conduct and indicate the age groups for which the playground is considered suitable.
When discovering attractive play areas, however, the natural terrain in particular plays a prominent role.
Playrooms for children to play
In department stores, museums, waiting rooms, railways, on cruise ships, but also in the classrooms of elementary schools, there are often play areas for children, which are primarily intended to keep the children busy and entertaining them. You avoid boredom, shorten difficult-to-bear waiting times and give adults freedom for their own activities.
Children's rooms are usually easy-care rooms equipped with personal favorite toys, which are primarily available to children as their private living space. Here they should be able to pursue their natural play instinct undisturbed by adults. In kindergartens , the majority of the space is usually designed with the possibility of play .
Scope for exercise
Sports fields and hall rooms with marked playing fields , with goals, volleyball nets and basketball hoops are intended for use in sports games such as football, handball, basketball or volleyball.
Scope for adventure
Specially designed play areas such as Robinson, construction or adventure playgrounds for the younger children and skate parks or similar facilities for the older children and adolescents serve the purpose of adventure experiences . With their special equipment, they give you a lot of freedom to try things out yourself and show courage . So-called play landscapes create adventure spaces on a larger scale and on even more generous play areas, which often also allow space for your own designs and which therefore have a special play value.
Playrooms as learning spaces
All kinds of leeway can also be combined with learning opportunities. The natural landscape offers the opportunity to include plants and animals in the quest for discovery. But interiors are also suitable for solving quiz tasks and for training sensory experiences.
Psychological and social significance of leeway
For healthy development, children and young people need spaces in which they can move independently, in which they can play and communicate with one another.
But adults also need spaces in which, in addition to work, they can also pursue the need for games, depending on their special interests. According to Friedrich Schiller , playing lets people come to themselves in the full sense of the word and “become human”. According to Siegbert Warwitz, it not only opens up exciting opportunities for experiences, but also a chance to perceive yourself as a personality, to live out your social needs and to initiate learning processes. Game scientists like Johan Huizinga even go so far as to assign the " Homo ludens " (the people who play) a role that creates and supports culture. All generations need suitable rooms to play with.
literature
- G. Beltzig: Children's playgrounds with high play value , Augsburg 1987
- U. Höfele: The dark room as an adventure playground for the senses , Dortmund 1995
- Johan Huizinga: Homo ludens. From the origin of culture in the game . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, 19th edition, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-499-55435-6 .
- Silke Jensch: Nature as an occasion to play, play space and play partner , Scientific State Examination Work GHS, Karlsruhe 2001.
- Brigitte Kleinod: Play areas . Plan - design - calculate. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3590-5 .
- Hans-Jörg Lange (Hrsg.): Ökologische Spiel (t) räume - A specialist book for planning and designing space . Association of Youth Farms and Active Playgrounds, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-00-001904-9 .
- M. Walther-Roche, A. Stock: Adventure landscapes in the gym , Verlag Hofmann, Schorndorf 2001.
- Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Shaping play landscapes , In: Dies .: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 , pp. 197-209.
- Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 .
Web links
- From space to space - traffic education network Vienna 2012
See also
Single receipts
- ↑ U. Höfele: The dark room as an adventure playground for the senses , Dortmund 1995
- ↑ Silke Jensch: Nature as an occasion to play, play space and play partner , Scientific State Examination Work GHS, Karlsruhe 2001
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Spiellandschaftenilden , In: Dies .: Vom Sinn des Spielens. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 197-209
- ^ G. Beltzig: Children's playgrounds with high play value , Augsburg 1987
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Lange (Hrsg.): Ökologische Spiel (t) räume - A specialist book for planning and designing space . Association of Youth Farms and Active Playgrounds, Stuttgart 1997
- ↑ U. Höfele: The dark room as an adventure playground for the senses , Dortmund 1995
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016
- ↑ F. Schiller: About the aesthetic education of man . 15th letter. Complete Works Vol. 4. Stuttgart 1874. pp. 591–595
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016
- ^ Johan Huizinga: Homo Ludens - From the origin of culture in play. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, 19th edition, Reinbek 2004