Your anecdote reminds me of a test that I did on both of my kids,
when they were between 2-3. I could read them a story book with the
images upside down, it didn't puzzle them at all and they perfectly
recognised the various characters in the illustration. And this would
stand even against the rotation : say that you start with page 2 and
3 upside down, than 4-5 correct, than turn again... always worked !
It is only later that they were telling me : you are holding the book
in the wrong direction (you're stupid, dad !).
Says a lot about the various traits of perception, and I always
wondered, if they weren't told by the others (telling them that they
were holding the book the wrong way), whether they could develop an
ability to identify features (and see them in relation, I am not
limiting this to recognition) that would be far more skilful than
what they are able to do today.
While playing, it was taking me to so many directions : cognition,
cultural abilities, abstraction in art etc.
Jean
Le 6 juin 11 à 05:44, Keith Russell a écrit :
For example, he changed his mind about the base frequently -
this lead to a few crashes and it led to him working upside-down. His
upside-down work reminded me of accounts of the process of Gaudi on
turning models for the Sagrada Família upside-down to see how gravity
worked. My grandson wasn't looking for gravity but he also wasn't
trapped into the presumed logic of the blocks.
Soon he will forget this freedom.
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