The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of young children’s narratives appearing by interacting with their peers while playing with blocks. The subjects include 7 five-year-olds of the Class attending the kindergarten. I collecte...
The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of young children’s narratives appearing by interacting with their peers while playing with blocks. The subjects include 7 five-year-olds of the Class attending the kindergarten. I collected a variety of data relating a play with blocks through observation in order to understand the content and structure of narratives. Gathered information was closely examined through a qualitative study to find out how children build narratives. The major research found that during block play, the children made a structure related to their life and recreated their experience using it as a background. The characteristics of young children’s narratives are categorized into the following three types: a children’s life story; imaginary story; and mixed story of both the real world and the imaginary world. Young children gave meanings to what they have built with the blocks through sharing their stories and came up with stories that are based on their life experience, knowledge, and imagination.