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If ever there was a book for our times, this is it.
As confusion about brain development and pressures for academic achievement mount, this book takes us on a guided, eminently readable journey through hundreds of studies on children's development and the impact of various types of learning experiences. My conclusion: a tour de force that must be read by educators, policy makers, families, and everyone who cares about the future of children's learning.
Ellen Galinsky
President
Families and Work Institute |
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This small monograph is a much needed antidote to today's common approach to child development -
an approach that is antithetical to the knowledge bases of both the fields of human development and early childhood education....The excellent contribution to understanding the significance of children's play you are about to read should help move the conceptual pendulum away from the restrictive view of child development as cognitive development toward one embracing whole-child development, and with it, the encouragement of children's play.
Ed Zigler
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, and Director, Emeritus,
of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale University |
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This little book packs a wallop
as it addresses the growing divide in early childhood education between those advocating for large amounts of teacher-led instruction and those supporting the diminishing world of child-initiated learning and play. The research supporting the latter is presented here in a fascinating and readable style.
Joan Almon
Chair
U.S. Alliance for Childhood |
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