Free to learn : why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life
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Free to learn : why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life
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- Free to learn : why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life
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- why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life
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- Peter Gray
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- eng
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- 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
- "In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know, but will do so with energy and passion. Children come into this world burning to learn, equipped with the curiosity, playfulness, and sociability to direct their own education. Yet we have squelched such instincts in a school model originally developed to indoctrinate, not to promote intellectual growth. To foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history, Gray demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient. This capacity to learn through play evolved long ago, in hunter-gatherer bands where children acquired the skills of the culture through their own initiatives. And these instincts still operate remarkably well today, as studies at alternative, democratically administered schools show. When children are in charge of their own education, they learn better--and at lower cost than the traditional model of coercive schooling."--Publisher's description
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- index present
- LC call number
- BF717
- LC item number
- .G73 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
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