Screen LibraryFree to learn : why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life /
Both inside and outside of school, children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision, and are afforded few opportunities to control their own lives. The result: anxious, unfocused children who see schooling-- and life-- as a series of hoops to struggle through. Gray argues that we are...
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Basic Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Both inside and outside of school, children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision, and are afforded few opportunities to control their own lives. The result: anxious, unfocused children who see schooling-- and life-- as a series of hoops to struggle through. Gray argues that we are squelching our children's' natural instincts to learn, equipped with the curiosity, playfulness, and sociability to direct their own education. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 274 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-264) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780465025992 (hardback) : 0465025994 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | BF717 |
| CLC: | B844.1 |
| Call Number: | B844.1/G781 |
| Contents: | What have we done to childhood? -- The play-filled lives of hunter-gatherer children -- Why schools are what they are: a brief history of education -- Seven sins of our system of forced education -- Lessons from Sudbury Valley: Mother Nature can prevail in modern times -- The human educative instincts -- The playful state of mind -- The role of play in social and emotional development -- Free age mixing: a key ingredient for children's capacity for self-education -- Trustful parenting in our modern world. |