The Social Development among Preschool Children: Analysis of Sociodramatic Play
- DOI
- 10.2991/icece-16.2017.38How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Social development, sociodramatic play, preschool children
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to identify a popular child, an unpopular child and the reasons an unpopular child is in sociodramatic play. The methods used are observation and sociometrist technique. It was conducted on 25 preschool children, which was five to six years. Sociometrist technique involved the selection of the peers preferred through the interview, tabulation table and make a sociogram. The data analysis was performed by using descriptive analysis in the frequency and percent. The results showed that the highest frequency of a popular child is eleven times and the lowest frequency of an unpopular child with rejection categories is one times. Further the absence frequency of an unpopular child with rejected categories. The results also showed that girls are more popular than boys. The reason an unpopular child in sociodramatic play showed that personality traits as the biggest factor namely they like crying, sulking, cowardly and shy. Therefore, preschool teachers need to take certain steps to help and give opportunities to children who suffer from social development when interacting with peers. The implications of the study suggest peer interaction should be taken into account in the further education.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Firmaniah Zulkarnaini PY - 2016/11 DA - 2016/11 TI - The Social Development among Preschool Children: Analysis of Sociodramatic Play BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 218 EP - 224 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.38 DO - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.38 ID - Zulkarnaini2016/11 ER -