The Social Context of Games: Or When Is Play Not Play?

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      This is an observational study of the game playing behavior of sixth-grade boys in free play in school yards and in formal physical education periods. The two social contexts were compared for the model of social reality they presented to the children. The peer group context appears to develop an egalitarian and consensual model concerned with means, the adult- structured context an authoritarian and imposed model concerned with ends. I suggest that these two models represent different facets of educational process and it is confusing to subsume both under the term "play" even if they both involve games in an educational setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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