Arteterapia (Oct 2008)
Pleasure and Displeasure in Children´s Spontaneous Play
Abstract
The space configured within the psychomotor practice is a device conceived so that children can thus experience a journey of psychological maturation regarding conflict management in interpersonal relations. The goal is also for them to go from action to thought by means of free and spontaneous play. Summarising, becoming aware of their existence and their life project. The configuration of Education contexts through new contemporary art proposals-installations and body implications- can favour cognitive processes, the elaboration of meanings, affective and emotional development, peer relations, and sensitive attitudes stemming from sensorimotor and symbolic play. These activities are based on the symbolic transformations that children make regarding their own bodies, objects and spaces. This way, they interpret these contexts as vital meaning, offering the characteristic metaphors of children’s culture as a manifestation and visualisation of all possible narratives.
