Potatoes, Food, The Monastery,
Cereals, etc.)
● Play: The need for change – If children
are anxious or worried, they need
to read a story about adventure or
mystery in order to lose themselves
completely. This is seen as a type of
escape. Many children suffer because
of school failure, family anxieties and
physical or social inferiority. They need
to escape in books. Children identify
themselves with book heroes and
through these characters, discover new
fineness in themselves, new capacities
for competent or noble action.
These stories provide children with
excitement, inspiration and laughter,
which all dissolve tensions. (Examples
include Fantasy stories, Sea Adventure,
Tom Thumb, Cinderella, A stranger in
the night, The amazing rescue, etc.)
● The need for aesthetic satisfaction
– People need to adorn, to make
beautiful and enjoy beauty. This
can also include expressions of the
wonder and joy of life in art, music,
dancing, painting and literature.
Human response is often in terms
of feeling, rather than of intellect.
Most frequently, it is a combination
of both. We call this feeling aesthetic
satisfaction, the satisfaction of our
hunger for harmony and beauty.
(Examples include Music (The
Woodstock Festival), Poetry (Young
Gazelle), Painting, Woodwind
Instruments, etc.)
Some of the content contributors
Doreen White [BA, HED]
Kerry Purnell [Higher Dipl. (Ed.)]
Kevin Hambidge [BA, English (Hons.)]
Beverley Purdon [BA(Ed), HED, English
(Hons.), English and Linguistics (MA),
Afrikaans (Secondary MA)]
Iona van der Merwe
Tel: +264 81 128 4052
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