An Investigation On The Status Quo Of 4-5 Years Old Children's Role Cognition In Role-playing Games

Role-playing game is a game in which the pre-school children imitate and imagine with the aid of the real or the alternative materials,act as language,movement,expression,and so on,and creatively reproduce the social life around them in accordance with their own wishes.It is also known as the symbolic games.Through the role play,the children can realize that there are different roles in society and the responsibilities of different social roles.Especially in the role games,children can imitate the language,action and other characteristics of different role types to deal with the contradictions produced by the various roles in the game process.This process makes the children understand more about the specific role of the game.At present,most of the researches on the role play of young children at home and abroad are related to the promotion of "children's cognition".And it is standing in the perspective of the adults through the observation of the explicit behaviors of the children,then it is analyzed the performance when children playing in the Role Play.This study attempts to interpret the understanding of "role",and understand the core element of role play,from the perspective of young children and through the collection of the interview data and the observation data of young children to sum up and sort out the dimensions in order to broaden the role of children play research perspective.In this study,52 middle class children of Q kindergarten in Baoding city,that was 26 boys and 26 girls,were randomly selected.The author conducted an open interview on "the role cognition in the role game",supplemented by a non-participatory observation,and used software Nvivo10 to the further study the status quo of the role type,characteristics and social relations of the middle class children.This paper attempts to provide a realistic basis for the teachers to observe and guide the role play of children in middle class.Through the software Nvivo10 coding,it is found in the middle class children's interviews on the role cognition in the role play,that we can extract the code to establish nodes-"family member","job","story character","material pointing","not knowing","one-dimensional","multidimensional","free onlooker","compliance","friend".By studyingthe relationships of each node and searching for the powerful words,the researchers form the core node of this study.They are "role types"(including family members,jobs,story characters,material orientation,lack of understanding,role performance(including one-dimensional,multidimensional,free-standing,and "role relationships"(including compliance,friends,ignorance)).Through the distribution of the proportion of each code in the core code to which it belongs,the researchers found that: there are differences in the role cognition between male and female children,children prefer the role of job type,children have more roles to play,and children have relatively single cognition about the relationship between roles.Combined with the above analysis and research,the researchers' inspiration to the character game design is as follows: starting from the reality of children's life,we will design activities aimed at enriching children's cognition of the different roles,design the conflicts between the roles in the games to exercise the children's ability to deal with the problems,and design the role thinking and the discussion links.The implications for teachers' support for guided games include: help children to understand the role,respect the differences in the role selection,intervening reasonably supporting the guidance,organizing the children to the evaluation of the game,stimulating the innovative awareness of children and playing the role of the role models.