Structural values
These pedagogical considerations connect play and toys to basic ecologically-oriented values which demand parti pris before they can be translated into the so-called “structural” values which include the layout and functions of the immediate environment.
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STRUCTURAL VALUES
- “layout and functions of the home environment”
- “environment functions” noise, surroundings, play opportunities, use of the media, possibilities for being alone, etc.
- “regulatory functions” structure of time and space and the influence of the media on these, etc..
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Finally, Bloch and Pellegrini (1989) discuss and analyse different conceptual definitions of play’s ecological context (surroundings, conditions) and play’s external universal environmental and system-ecological atmosphere - in such a way as to present these as structural values.
Similarly, Spanhel (1990, 1991, 1992) discusses this and suggests some principals for system-ecological analyses of children’s play. These are discussed later in this book under “Perspectives in the ecological approach to play”.