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Title:

Controlled games: motif of child’s play in early modernDutch literature

Subject and Keywords:

children’s games   motif of play   early modern period   Dutch literature   early modern literature   didactic literature   Humanism   Reformation   humanistic pedagogicalideas,   Jacob Cats   Erasmus of Rotterdam   Juan Luis Vives   Christiaan Huygens

Abstract:

The aim of this article is to analyse the motif of play appearing in early modernDutch literature, from the perspective of the humanistic pedagogical ideas. These werehumanist educators, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Juan Luis Vives, who started torecognize the pedagogical and educational benefits of game playing. The author discussesa manner in which the humanistic pedagogical ideals are reflected in the domainof the didactic literature, propagating ideal patterns of behavior. The paper addressesthe mentioned problem by analyzing the phenomenon of play present in the one of themost popular Dutch didactic treatises Marriage (Houwelyck, 1625) of 17th-century poetand moralist Jacob Cats (1577–1660). It turns out that the motif of play presented in thetreatise affects different contexts: educational, pedagogical and moral. Furthermore, thepoet evaluates the concept of play by making a distinction between good and badgames. This division serves him as a metaphor of an ideal and non-ideal upbringing andparenthood. The analysis also shows that by recognizing the educational benefits of thisform of entertainment, play, unless purposeful and useful, raises moral doubts, what,according to Jacob Cats and the mentioned humanist educators, has constituted its existencein the child’s world

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Zakład Historii Edukacji Instytutu Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date:

2016

Date issued:

2016

Detailed Type:

czasopisma (wydawnictwa ciągłe)

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2082-9019   e-ISSN 2300-5866

DOI:

doi:10.23734/wwr20162.029.040

Source:

Pdg P 343

Language:

pol

Relation:

Wychowanie w Rodzinie, T. 14 (2/2016), s. 29-40

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Rights holder:

Copyright by Joanna Kozikowska

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

Z.M