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Implementation of children’s traditional games
in early childhood
by
VĚRA MIŠURCOVÁ
The article 31 of the Convention on the rights of the child guarantees the right of
the child „to engage in play .
.
.
and to participate freely in cultural life and...
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Implementation of children’s traditional games
in early childhood
by
VĚRA MIŠURCOVÁ
The article 31 of the Convention on the rights of the child guarantees the right of
the child „to engage in play .
.
.
and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts“.
In
early childhood the play is the child’s main activity and an important factor of its
education.
Children’s traditional games are an important part of the Czech cultural and
educational tradition.
These games which have been mostly created by children
correspond to the needs of their development and pass from one generation to another
as a part of children’s folklore.
Its creations (games, nursery rhymes, songs, riddles, and
the like) have been preserved by oral tradition throughout centuries; some of them have
lost their importance in the course of time and have fallen into oblivion.
Others have
been modified and supplemented with a new, either original or adopted creation.
Those
games which have been preserved unti
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