| Description |
xvii, 445 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Play is the key to giving children skills they need to succeed - creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and execution function. Yet our policies are destroying authentic play in our schools and replacing it with standardization and stress. Not so in Finland, which is ranked as having the #1 education system in the world as well as the happiest citizens. In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, former Director General of Finland's Ministry of Education and Culture, and William Doyle, documentary producer, author, and Fulbright Scholar, announce a platform for bringing the Finnish style of education to the U.S. Providing a glimpse into the play-based experiments ongoing now all over the world, readers will find the book to be both a call for change and a guide for making that change happen in their own communities"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson -- Chapter 1: The Coming Golden Age of Childhood -- Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Fathers -- Chapter 3: The Learning Power of Play -- Chapter 4: The GERM that Kills Play -- Chapter 5: An American Tragedy: The Death of Recess -- Chapter 6: The Global War on Play -- Chapter 7: The Great Play Experiments -- Chapter 8: Play in the Schools of Tomorrow -- Chapter 9: The Global Play Summit -- Appendices -- 1. The Declaration of Play -- Call to Halt the War on Childhood -- 2. The Play Stages of a Child's School Life -- 3. 7 Steps to Help Children and Schools Thrive -- 4. Play Recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics -- Resources -- Source Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Play -- Psychological aspects.
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Play schools.
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Child psychology.
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Child development.
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Child development. (OCoLC)fst00854393
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Child psychology. (OCoLC)fst00854540
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Play -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01066943
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Play schools. (OCoLC)fst01066969
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| ISBN |
9780190930967 (hardcover) |
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0190930969 (hardcover) |
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