Friday, May 2, 2014

George Herbert Mead - Child Development - Play Stage


My son loves Zombies.  He really is preparing for the zombie apocalypse.  This would be a throwback picture to when he began perfecting his undead gate and slobbering growl at the young age of five.  This pretending to be a zombie all the way back to the car and down the road (twenty five miles down the road) is an example of Mead's first stage of child development, play.  This is the stage where children play as others.  They learn to take the role and attitude of another person to themselves.  Mead states that this type of play pretend is part of the building blocks to forming a self.

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