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The Resource Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, (electronic resource)
Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, (electronic resource)
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The item Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
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- Summary
- Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests?often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even 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. In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own inte
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (450 p.)
- Contents
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Prologue; CHAPTER 1 What Have We Done to Childhood?; CHAPTER 2 The Play-Filled Lives of Hunter-Gatherer Children; CHAPTER 3 Why Schools Are What They Are: A Brief History of Education; CHAPTER 4 Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education; CHAPTER 5 Lessons from Sudbury Valley: Mother Nature Can Prevail in Modern Times; CHAPTER 6 The Human Educative Instincts; CHAPTER 7 The Playful State of Mind; CHAPTER 8 The Role of Play in Social and Emotional Development
- CHAPTER 9 Free Age Mixing: A Key Ingredient for Children's Capacity for Self-EducationCHAPTER 10 Trustful Parenting in Our Modern World; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9780465037919
- Label
- Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
- Title
- Free to Learn
- Title remainder
- Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests?often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even 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. In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own inte
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gray, Peter
- Dewey number
- 155.418
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BF717 .G73 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Developmental psychology
- Play
- Psychology
- Play
- Developmental psychology
- Label
- Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, (electronic resource)
- Contents
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Prologue; CHAPTER 1 What Have We Done to Childhood?; CHAPTER 2 The Play-Filled Lives of Hunter-Gatherer Children; CHAPTER 3 Why Schools Are What They Are: A Brief History of Education; CHAPTER 4 Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education; CHAPTER 5 Lessons from Sudbury Valley: Mother Nature Can Prevail in Modern Times; CHAPTER 6 The Human Educative Instincts; CHAPTER 7 The Playful State of Mind; CHAPTER 8 The Role of Play in Social and Emotional Development
- CHAPTER 9 Free Age Mixing: A Key Ingredient for Children's Capacity for Self-EducationCHAPTER 10 Trustful Parenting in Our Modern World; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn828794182
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (450 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780465037919
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)828794182
- Label
- Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, (electronic resource)
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Prologue; CHAPTER 1 What Have We Done to Childhood?; CHAPTER 2 The Play-Filled Lives of Hunter-Gatherer Children; CHAPTER 3 Why Schools Are What They Are: A Brief History of Education; CHAPTER 4 Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education; CHAPTER 5 Lessons from Sudbury Valley: Mother Nature Can Prevail in Modern Times; CHAPTER 6 The Human Educative Instincts; CHAPTER 7 The Playful State of Mind; CHAPTER 8 The Role of Play in Social and Emotional Development
- CHAPTER 9 Free Age Mixing: A Key Ingredient for Children's Capacity for Self-EducationCHAPTER 10 Trustful Parenting in Our Modern World; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn828794182
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (450 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780465037919
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)828794182
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