Suddenly one of them dashes to the playground slide and slides down, while the other one stands under the slide yelling for a doctor. There is much more to the girls play than first meets the eye. I wanted to establish whether or not this was true. Play is bound to time and culture.
Kalliala views play in relation to time in terms of three different pictures.
In the overall picture, she depicts the changing modern society. In the close-up picture Kalliala characterises play and the particular culture associated with it. After observing, she interviewed the children in order to find out what the game had been about and what had triggered it. The positive aspect of the interviews was that I got an insight into the children s ideas. This method does not, however, give a comprehensive overview of all play, because the children described their favourite activities.