George Herbert Mead's: Play Stage
...e of those who fulfill this role hoping to imagine, and achieve them. According to the genesis of the self, play stage begins with simple gestures and gradually moves up in difficulty to running away when being chased or using symbols to interact. The different role playing a child goes through is what I am trying to symbolize with these pictures. Children learn, grow, act, and communicate through play. A child learns the way the world operates, by attempting to assume a role of an adult. Such examples may include play with a doll and dress up, which demonstrates a motherly roll. This involves taking care of the “baby, and feeding them, in addition to them looking the part. In dress up whether it’s alone or with another peer, is a way of acting out how they see “grown-ups” in the real world acting. With other children, they may assume roles as police officers, firefighters, construction workers, and may even pretend play at going to work or grocery shopping. These Various pictures being demonstrated show young children dressing up in different costumes and/or outfits to represent a variety of careers that educated adults undergo in their lives. According to an article titled George Herbert Mead, Play, and Recess; Mead believed that play “consists of isolated, disjointed episodes, even though specific actions within a play episode are interrelated and connected with one another.” This simply means that the child becomes immersed in their play and does not pay attention to anything that is happening around them. These pictures I have chosen show a child dressed in a suit as a construction worker, possibly imagining...