Playing And Reality Case Study

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Winniscot’s book, Playing and Reality, focuses on the nature of learning through playing and how mentally vulnerable people are when they’re young. In his case studies, he mentioned about a boy who would act in weird manners with strings when his mother wasn’t home. The problem became worse and worse, and they visited him for help. Winnicot suggested that a line of communication would be required between the mother and the child as he could see that the child was too reliant on the mother. After that suggestion, the child seemed to get better at first, but found himself relying too much on his parents for affection and eventually became a drug addict. The case study seems to suggest that the human mind are very vulnerable at youth, and without …show more content…
A transitional object is an object that a child has absolute control over when he/she is still learning about their core values from their parents. It also teaches them how to act and how to manipulate the outer world with their own body. The object is there to help the child learn about the outer world, an object that lies in the outer world, but a big part of the child inner world. Usually this object would be a toy that a child would want to play with as children will be more likely to carry this object with them more often. Winnicott believes that play is a fundamental part of everyone’s’ life as it is the gateway for a child to interact with the outer world and is also part of human instinct to want to play as it creates excitement in our …show more content…
The system seems logical, but the method of measuring the student is flawed as too many components of the system are unreliable. Teachers, testing system, grading system, can all be flawed to accurately decide how much a student has learned. Not only that, some people have different ideas what a grade number is. Some say it’s based on the percentage of material the student understood, but other might say its based on how much involved the student was in class, and sometimes, the most bafflingly stupid and arguable the most damaging method, because “there can be only be one A in the class”. If no one can agree what the numbers mean how would they know ANYTHING about a certain

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