Study On Children’s Game Integration Behavior In Mixed-Age Play

As the most basic activity of children,games always run through children’s daily life and play an irreplaceable role in children’s physical and mental development.As a form of children’s play,mixed age play provide more choices for children’s peer communication,from a single peer of the same age to a peer of different ages,and create an open play environment with more choices and free exploration.In this play environment,children’s peer communication of different ages presents the characteristics of diversification and complexity.Whether children can successfully integrate into the game has attracted the attention of researchers.This study hopes to use research tools to analyze and study children’s play peer communication and integration behavior in mixed age play,and put forward educational support suggestions with theoretical and practical value according to the research on the support strategies of individual children.Firstly,the researcher tested 27 children in mixed age class with the help of peer nomination method.Combined with the results of peer nomination test,the researcher’s pre observation and teacher interview results,three case study subjects were selected.Secondly,establish different age peer social network,analyze the different age peer social network from the perspective of group relationship,and summarize the characteristics of children’s peer communication in mixed age play.Thirdly,the researcher uses the observation method to observe and record children’s game integration behavior in mixed age play,and further analyzes the impact of children’s game integration strategies,game integration results and other factors on children’s game integration behavior in mixed age play.Finally,the researcher conducted a support strategy study on the game integration behavior of three case children.After three weeks of support research,the game integration behavior strategy of children was developed and the level of game integration was improved.After the above research,the researchers found that peer communication of different ages affects the choice of children’s game integration strategies;The age of the initiator of game integration behavior affects the initiation of game integration behavior;The game environment affects the region and game level of game integration behavior;Peer relationship has a significant impact on children’s game integration behavior.