A Study On The Intervention Of Puppetry Activities On The Perspective-taking Ability Of Middle-class Childre

Perspective—Taking refers to the ability of individuals to understand and infer others’ internal psychological states(such as opinions,attitudes,thoughts,emotions,etc.)based on certain information,which is of great value to the development of individual cognition,emotion and prosocial behavior.According to the different content of Perspective—Taking,it can be divided into spatial perspective—taking and social perspective—taking,and social perspective—taking includes cognitive perspective—taking and emotional perspective—taking.4 to 5 years old is a critical period for the development of children’s perspective—taking ability.Grasping the critical period and guiding them properly in time is conducive to the development of children’s social perspective—taking ability,thus establishing a good social interaction relationship.The cultivation of spatial perspective—taking plays a positive role in reducing self-centricity bias and other-centricity interference.Therefore,it is of great theoretical and practical significance to explore children’s perspective—taking ability.Puppetry performance game is a unique form of play in early childhood,which is of great value to the development of children’s perception,communication ability,role awareness and emotion.Puppet drama activities,through the combination of teacher guidance and children’s independent games,make use of things in place of things,scenario hypothesis,role transformation,stage discussion and other ways,so that children can maximize the variety of role experience,to achieve the ideal effect of improving the ability to perspective—taking.This study selects 72 middle class children from an urban kindergarten in Q City as the research object.Divided into experimental group and control group,experimental control group before and after the test was adopted to design,combining with the characteristics of children view see the development stage and fusion picture books stories,traditional stories,red classics story adapted into drama script,from simple to complex,from easy to difficult is stepped on experimental kindergarten for 12 weeks I play activity intervention,30 minutes each time,To explore the intervention effect of puppet drama activities on children’s viewpoint selection ability in middle class.In order to make up for the deficiency of quantitative research and the defect of single research object,semi-structured interviews were conducted with preschool teachers and parents in the experimental group after the end of the experiment,and the behavioral changes of children’s perspective—taking after intervention were understood through the analysis of interview data.After a 12-week intervention of "children’s subjectivity puppetry activity",1.Puppetry activity has a promotion effect on the social point of view selection and the two sub-dimensions(cognitive perspective-taking,emotion a perspective-taking)and spatial point of view selection of middle class children;2.Puppetry activities,the intervention effect of social point of view selection(cognitive perspective-taking,emotional cognitive perspective-taking)of middle class children is better,while the intervention effect of spatial perspective-taking needs to be further improved;3.Under the intervention subjective puppetry activities,there were significant gender differences in children’s cognitive perspective-taking ability,but no significant gender differences in other dimensions;4.Through interviews with teachers and parents in the experimental group,it was found that children’s prosocial behaviors related to perspective-taking in daily life increased after intervention.Conclusion: Puppet drama activities can effectively promote the overall level of children’s perspective—taking ability.According to the research results,the following suggestions are put forward: accurately positioning the value of puppet drama activities;In the selection of puppet drama,children should be combined with the age of the appropriate puppet drama script and props material;Respect children’s subjectivity in puppet drama activities;Give young children opportunities to participate in activities;Teachers should consider children’s gender differences,provide flexible and diversified guidance and actively integrate into puppet drama activities.At the same time,parents and teachers should improve their understanding of perspective—taking so as to provide specific observation and guidance for promoting the development of children’s viewpoint taking.