Vygotsky at Work and Play

Entrepreneurial Identity

“…Identity play also helps individuals move away from focusing on the past and present, thus liberating their identity from the weight and restrictions of validation in a social setting (Ibarra and Petriglieri 2010;Winnicott 1975Winnicott , 2005. Unlike cognitive deconstruction, however, during identity play, the individual does not omit meaning making but instead investigates an array of potential future selves (Holzman 2009), thus facilitating identity creation and recovery (Shepherd and Williams 2018).…”

Entrepreneurial Cognition

“…Identity play also helps individuals move away from focusing on the past and present, thus liberating their identity from the weight and restrictions of validation in a social setting (Ibarra and Petriglieri 2010;Winnicott 1975Winnicott , 2005. Unlike cognitive deconstruction, however, during identity play, the individual does not omit meaning making but instead investigates an array of potential future selves (Holzman 2009), thus facilitating identity creation and recovery .…”

Impediments to effective enactment of early childhood education curriculum and pedagogy in Tanzania: issues and experiences of teachers in urban and rural pre-schools

“…Children develop an ability to be creative and expressive through a variety of activities, such as plays, story-telling, singing songs of their own and experimenting with tunes and pitch patterns, drama and dancing (Holzman, 2009;Saracho, 2012b). Learning and development need to be integrated through tasks, activities, and contexts that have meaning and purpose for the child, including practices and activities which are not always structured (Mitchell, Bateman, & Ouko, 2015).…”

“…Learning and development need to be integrated through tasks, activities, and contexts that have meaning and purpose for the child, including practices and activities which are not always structured (Mitchell, Bateman, & Ouko, 2015). Engagement in play for children enables them to be active in the exploration of the environment (Holzman, 2009;Saracho, 2012b;Te Whāriki New Zealand Ministry of Education, 1996). Children participate and gain experiences in environments in which their play is valued as meaningful learning and the importance of spontaneous play is recognised (Holzman, 2009).…”

“…Engagement in play for children enables them to be active in the exploration of the environment (Holzman, 2009;Saracho, 2012b;Te Whāriki New Zealand Ministry of Education, 1996). Children participate and gain experiences in environments in which their play is valued as meaningful learning and the importance of spontaneous play is recognised (Holzman, 2009). The concept of play is informed by the writings of Lev Vygotsky who emphasised linking early childhood play to the formation of personality and a worldview, Vygotsky wrote that the pre-school child "can be somebody else just as easily as he can be himself" (Vygotsky, 1978, p. 249).…”