A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Applying the Scientific Evidence
Efforts to give preschool children a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics instead rob them of play time both at home and
Efforts to give preschool children a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics instead rob them of play time both at home and
Why is it that the best and brightest of our children are arriving at college too burned out to profit from the smorgasbord of intellectual
In Einstein Never Used Flashcards highly credentialed child psychologists, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D., offer a compelling indictment
Roger Caillois’ Man, Play and Games (1961) stands alongside Brian Sutton-Smith’s The Ambiguity of Play (1997) and Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1938) as a touchstone
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A) Playing, being playful, is the healthiest way to spend your time (after feeding and housing yourself).
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