【摘要】 游戏是学前教育领域的核心概念。将概念的历史发展与社会现实进行紧密的结合，考察其在社会变革期间内涵和外延的转折与变化，方能透视理论上的困境和实践中的问题。18世纪末以来的西方游戏理论一经诞生，就孕育了其内在的矛盾与冲突。这种冲突也深刻地植入了儿童游戏理论化的过程。儿童游戏概念的形成有其思想与社会文化背景，现代化过程中进步修辞构成了它的主流语境。在中国，儿童游戏概念的确立与现代化进程中民族国家的生存与发展联系在一起。社会变革过程中的复杂力量也使得儿童游戏概念产生了不同维度上的意义裂变，包括认知价值与审美价值的分离，享用功能与发展功能的分离，以及日常概念与专业概念的分离。未来的儿童游戏理论建设需要更好地面对这些问题的挑战。更多还原

【Abstract】 Play is a core concept in the field of early childhood education. By closely integrating the historical changes of the concept with the social reality,and examining the transitions and changes in its connotation and extension during the period of social change,the theoretical dilemmas and problems in practice can be comprehended. Since the end of the 18th century,the birth of the western play theory has nurtured its inherent contradictions and conflicts. This conflict has also been profoundly implanted in the process of theorizing children’s play. The formation of the concept of children’s play has its ideological and socio-cultural background, and the progress rhetoric in the process of modernization constitutes its dominant context. In China,the establishment of the concept of children’s play is linked to the survival and development of the nation-state in the process of modernization. Complex forces in the process of social change have also caused the concept of children’s play to fracture in meaning at different levels,including the separation of cognitive and aesthetic values,the separation of enjoyment and developmental functions,and the separation of everyday and professional concepts. Future theorizing of children’s play needs to better face the challenges of these issues.更多还原