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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Prologue -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xii, 274 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465025992
0465025994
SUBJECTS
Play -- Psychological aspects.
Developmental psychology.