I found this article, and I think it sounded relevant to our class discussion and to the reading concerning play. The article is from a journal that focuses on a Marxist approach to psychology, so it definitely talks about play from a different approach than we took in class on Tuesday. I found the most interesting portion of this article to be the section in which the author explains how a child’s greatest display of self-control occurs in play, because the child abides by the rules by his/her own choice, and not because someone else told him/her to. The author talks at length about the definition of play and argues that play is necessary to the fulfillment of children’s needs.

http://compsci.duq.edu/~packer/Courses/PSI3962/Lectura%209%20Vygotsky.pdf

Vygotsky, Lev. “Play and its role in the Mental Development of the Child.” Trans. Catherine Mulholland. Voprosy psikhologii 6 (1966): 1-18.