Children in the world of allegory: the key role of comparison skills and abstract thinking

• Rozalina Engels-Kritidis ^[1]
  1. [1] Sofia University

     Sofia University

     Bulgaria

     
• Localización: Multidisciplinary journal of school education, ISSN-e 2543-8409, ISSN 2543-7585, Vol. 6, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The stimulation of children's linguistic activity in preschool and early school education), págs. 107-133
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This publication shows the potential of pre-school age children to understand and use allegory, focusing specifically on the core of the ability to interpret the allegory of proverbs and sayings. A connection between comparison skills and allegory interpretation skills has been statistically proved, confirming that the image-based way of thinking is typical for the ages under research and allowing us to define visualization as a principal stage in the process of getting to the meaning of allegory. The publication also gives statistical arguments which support a connection between the development of the ability for abstract thinking and allegory interpretation skills, i.e. a child with better-developed abstract thinking ability will display a higher capacity for interpreting allegorical meanings.