The power of play : how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children / David Elkind. [print]

By:

Elkind, David, 1931- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Da Capo Lifelong, 2007.Description: xii, 240 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780738210537

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LOC classification:

BF717.E43.P694 2007
BF717

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Contents:

Play, love, and work : an essential trio -- Toys aren't us -- Screen play and iconic literacy -- Child play and parent angst

Play, learning, and development -- Misunderstandings about how young children learn -- Playing for a reason : building the units of math, reading, and science -- It isn't only a game : the role of play in becoming social

The power of play -- Lighthearted parenting -- Schooling with heart, mind, and body -- Epilogue : Gifts for a lifetime

Subject: Discusses the importance of unstructured play during childhood, featuring examples and evidence to support the author's contention that play is crucial to the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development of children.

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Introduction

PennsylvaniaRT 1: The changing world of play -- Play, love, and work : an essential trio -- Toys aren't us -- Screen play and iconic literacy -- Child play and parent angst

PennsylvaniaRT 2 -- Play, learning, and development -- Misunderstandings about how young children learn -- Playing for a reason : building the units of math, reading, and science -- It isn't only a game : the role of play in becoming social

PennsylvaniaRT 3. -- The power of play -- Lighthearted parenting -- Schooling with heart, mind, and body -- Epilogue : Gifts for a lifetime

Discusses the importance of unstructured play during childhood, featuring examples and evidence to support the author's contention that play is crucial to the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development of children.

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