‘Re-living’ in play: a cultural-historical study of the child’s repetitiveness through the concept of ‘perezhivanie’ as a unit of consciousness (La recreación infantil en el juego: un estudio histórico-cultural de la repetitividad infantil mediante el concepto ‘perezhivanie’ como unidad de conciencia)

Abstract

Theoretically and methodologically guided by the concept of perezhivanie as a unit of human consciousness, this study explores the changes of a child's consciousness on something, with a focus on instances of repetitiveness found during everyday family play. Two families from mainland China with three-year-old children participated in this study. A total of 56 hours and 40 minutes of visual data were collected through digital video observations and parent interviews. Findings from one family were reported here to better analyse the differences in a child's perezhivanie when he kept doing the same play. The child's re-living in play indicated the changes in his dramatic imaginative actions (defined as a child's perezhivanie and methodologically, which means the unit of the child's consciousness in play) wherein how the child continually reorganized his imaginary formations could be refracted. We argue that the changes of a child's perezhivanie around the same event are meaningful as foregrounding to better understand their refraction process. This contributes to further conceptualization and theorization of children's development of consciousness. RESUMENBajo un enfoque teórico y metodológico guiado por el concepto de perezhivanie como unidad de la conciencia humana, este estudio explora los cambios que experimenta la conciencia infantil sobre un objeto o evento, centrándonos en ejemplos de repetitividad observados durante el juego familiar cotidiano. En el estudio participaron dos familias de China continental con hijos de tres años. Se recabaron datos visuales durante un total de 56 horas y 40 minutos de grabaciones en vídeo y entrevistas parentales. En este artículo se detallan los resultados obtenidos de una de las familias para un mejor análisis de las diferencias en la perezhivanie del niño durante sus iteraciones en el juego. La recreación infantil durante el juego era indicativa de cambios en sus acciones ARTICLE HISTORY