Sociocultural Anthropology

Learning and Training

Tunisian Sahara, 1975

who is the learner?

Jean-Pierre Rossie
 PowerPoint presentation for

Play, Toys and Intercultural Early Childhood Education

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees

Play, Education, Toys and Languages (PETaL)

Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

23 March 2021
visual encyclopedia for Anti-Atlas toddlers and small girls

reconstruction of a wedding feast scene in girls’ games, 2006

visual encyclopedia for Tuareg toddlers and small girls

Sahara, 1938
 visual encyclopedia for Ghrib toddlers and small boys

Tunisian
Sahara
1975

building the male world in wet sand: mosque, saint tomb, house, car, truck
 learning about symbols, rituals and feasts

ritual for a child late with walking symbols for bridegroom and bride

Tunisian Sahara, 1975 Anti-Atlas, 2006

 the belghenja rain ritual and the belghenja game

belghenja doll of the women and belghenja doll of the girls, Anti-Atlas, 2007
the Ashura feast with the Ashur dolls

Anti-Atlas, 2007
playing mother and children

Anti-Atlas, 2006-2008
 learning about the properties of natural materials

High Atlas, 1999 Sidi Ifni, 2007

 sand, clay, wind, fire
Tunisian Sahara
1975

Anti-Atlas, 2005

Kénitra, 1993

Anti-Atlas, 2005 Anti-Atlas, 2006

using material of vegetal origin

mule driver and mule

High Atlas, 1992
doll used by boys to participate separately in a traditional dance

Haut Atlas, 1992

weaving a camel with palm leaves making a tractor with cactus pieces and waste material
pre-Sahara, 1993 Anti-Atlas, 1996
 using material of animal origin

sheep wool as doll’s hair horsehair as doll’s hair

High Atlas, 1992 Anti-Atlas, 1998
learning about the properties of waste materials

Sidi Ifni, 2005 Anti-Atlas, 1996

 learning about the life of adults

High Atlas, 1992 Anti-Atlas, 2007

Anti-Atlas, 2008 Anti-Atlas, 2005

learning through
experience

playfully collecting
firewood

Central Morocco
1999

the tea ritual

as play activity

Middle Atlas
1994
Central Morocco, 1999
creativity in play and toy making activities

High Atlas, 1997 Anti-Atlas, 2006

High-Atlas, 1994
learning motor skills
elastic skipping

Anti-Atlas, 2007
throwing five or more stones

Moroccan Sahara, 2005

learning to make and to ride
the local skateboard

Sidi Ifni, 2002 Marrakech, 1993

 learning to play games of strategy

Tunisian Sahara, 1975 Agadir 2011

 learning verbal skills
in games verbal and musical expressions are mostly learned
from older children in combination with non-verbal behavior

Tiznit, 2006
multilingualism: adolescents speaking Tashelhit, Arabic, French
but choosing to speak English with me

Anti-Atlas, 2017
 musical training

High Atlas 1999

High Atlas 1999

Sidi Ifni 2007
 evolution of children’s toys and play

dolls without a face dolls with a face modernized doll

Tunisian Sahara,1975 1991

child induced learning about technological changes

Anti-Atlas 2007

Anti-Atlas
2005

High Atlas
1995
learning about economic and social change

Anti-Atlas

2005

2007
interpreting changing attitudes in the community
the private home for children and adults at risk

Anti-Atlas, 2007
 manipulating a digital photo camera and an electronic toy

Pre-Sahara, 2007 Sidi Ifni, 2007

 playing, adapting and discussing TV messages in playgroups

the Palestine fighters rescue helicopter during the flood in

Sidi Ifni, 2005 Casablanca, Anti-Atlas, 2011
game of gendarmes and hashish traffickers

Anti-Atlas 2009
 exchanging viewpoints on Moroccans living in Europe and on European tourists

gifts from emigrants and dolls dressed play about sunbathing tourists
as emigrant’s daughters, Anti-Atlas, 2008 Anti-Atlas, 2006
 globalization of the toy markets
from self-made toys to toys as gifts of adults

Marrakech, 2005, 1992 Central Morocco, 1998

 informal and formal education:
an Anti-Atlas children’s point of view

2007
Pieter Breughel the Elder, Children's Games, 1560
 the importance of local collaborators for my research
on Anti-Atlas children’s play and toy heritage, 2003-today

Khalija Jariaa Boubaker Daoumani

  using non-western children’s toy and play heritages
for intercultural and global education

Ashura
a children’s feast in Morocco
PowerPoint presentation and texts prepared
for a project in Global Education of the
Humanities Education Centre, London

2008

Text: https://www.academia.edu/9720271

PowerPoint: https://www.academia.edu/9720404
 Children’s practices during Ashura

making dolls
singing and playing music
collecting gifts
spraying water
playing with fire
children’s mascarade

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does not function anymore so please refer to
my account on https://ucp.academia.edu/JeanPierreRossie
 comparing Moroccan and European play and festive activities

Moroccan practices European practices

playing with self-made dolls playing with dolls from the toy industry

singing and playing music singing and playing music

Ashura door to door collection Magi feast, Halloween door to door collection

spraying water spraying water

firing sparks, jumping over fire firework , jumping over fire

creating personages for masquerade creating personages for carnival, Halloween