Dialectical structure of preschool play

Background. Xe article deals with the dialectical structure of play activity of preschool children. Xe dialectic structure is built with the help of structure-dialectic method which is based on the opposites, deYned in the course of content analysis. Xe paper shows that the dialectical structure of play is leveled. Xe analysis of play activity allows us to speak about the ability of preschool children to represent the dialectical structure of play. Xe paper reveals substantial features of each level and gives the explanation of the transition from one level to another. Objective. Xe paper aims to justify the possibility to develop diagnostic system for preschool children’s play activity development on the basis of the proposed structure. It can be designed upon the dialectical structure of play and the preschool children’s play matrix. Results. A model of the dialectical structure of a preschooler’s role-playing game, enabling to take into account the important structural components of the game, is proposed. Xe phenomenon of the semantic Yeld expressed in the merge (overlap) of the visible (perceptual) Yeld and the representative (imaginary) Yeld is considered. Xe diZerence between the semantic Yeld and an imaginary situation is shown. In the Yrst case the child is focused on the behavior of others, while in the second case he is focused on his own actions. Xe possibility to apply dialectical structure to the analysis of play activity in preschool children in order to build play practice is demonstrated. Conclusion. It seems advisable to develop diagnostic tools to assess the development of games for preschool children taking into account the dialectical structure of games.