Children in the World of Allegory: the Key Role of Comparison Skills and Abstract Thinking

  • Rozalina Engels-Kritidis “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of SoAa, Bulgaria
Keywords: allegory / pre-school age / proverbs and sayings / comparison skills / abstract thinking

Abstract

This publication shows the potential of pre-school age children to understand and use allegory, focusing specifically on the core of the ability to interpret the allegory of proverbs and sayings. A connection between comparison skills and allegory interpretation skills has been statistically proved, confirming that the image-based way of thinking is typical for the ages under research and allowing us to define visualization as a principal stage in the process of getting to the meaning of allegory. The publication also gives statistical arguments which support a connection between the development of the ability for abstract thinking and allegory interpretation skills, i.e. a child with better-developed abstract thinking ability will display a higher capacity for interpreting allegorical meanings.

Author Biography

Rozalina Engels-Kritidis, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of SoAa, Bulgaria
Rozalina Engels-Kritidis, PhD is an associate professor and a lecturer at Sofia University, leading academic courses on two main disciplines: Basis and theory of pre-school education, and Language acquisition and speech development in early years. She is one of the authors of the pre-school educational programme system “Friends” (2009), approved by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. She has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities and institutions across Europe, including University of Cambridge, Athens Kapodistrian University, University of Patras, Central European University in Budapest, Catholic University of Leuven, Municipality of Sundsvall in Sweden, Comenius University in Bratislava, and German Youth Institute in Munich. She is the author of more than fifty publications in Bulgarian and English language, as well as the following three books: “Intercultural Educational Program for Preparatory Classes in Bulgarian Sunday Schools in Greece” (2013), “Proverbs and Sayings in the Educational Interaction with Bulgarian Children Living Abroad” (2013), and “The Child in the Allegory World of Proverbs and Sayings” (2012).
Published
2014-12-29
How to Cite
Engels-Kritidis, R. (2014). Children in the World of Allegory: the Key Role of Comparison Skills and Abstract Thinking. Multidisciplinary Journal of School Education, 3(2 (6). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.ignatianum.edu.pl/jpe/article/view/1298
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 2 (6) (2014): The Stimulation of Children’s Linguistic Activity in Preschool and Early School Education
Section
Thematic Articles

Copyright (c) 2014 Rozalina Engels-Kritidis

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