![]() The clapping acts as a rigid percussive timekeeping device and the words and melodies fit in around this rhythm. (2) They consist of a variety of rhymes set to tunes which accompany Thirty-four clapping rhymes, fourteen chanted and twenty with a melody. Games not only in English but also in Punjabi, though none wereĬollected in Bangla. Whose mother tongue was Bangla or Punjabi. Only by girls whose first language was English but also by children High in popularity among the girls, in every school visited, haveīeen a number of hand-clapping games. Labelled School G in the Appendix, and in 2001 to School C. The schools in the original study: in 1999, 20 to the school I have returned in subsequent years to two of The year 2000, the education system was re-organized, first schoolsīecoming primary schools. Part of their oral tradition, and so have an extensive repertoire. They have watched olderĬhildren and have practised the games and rhymes which form an integral Have absorbed the culture of the playground. ![]() ![]() Studying this group of children has the advantage that by this age they The eight-year-olds, an age which was common to all the schools. That time there was a mixture of both first schools, taking childrenĪged from five to nine years, and primary schools, taking children fromįive to eleven years of age. The schools were pairedĪccording to the social background of the pupils and included two whereĪlmost all the children were of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin. Some five miles further east in the Aire valley. Nine schools in Keighley and one (a pilot study) in Shipley, which is Original one, in 1992-93, explored children's oral tradition in Number of movements and tunes to devise a remarkable number of games.Įxamined here is the most popular of the melodies and the ways in whichĭuring the last decade I have conducted several surveys ofĬhildren's playground activities in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Of the movements and music shows that children use a relatively small The games give the appearance of greatĬomplexity when performed by skilled practitioners. Retrieved from Ĭlapping games are an important part of the play repertoire of
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