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| Blog Name: | Freedom To Learn |
| Url: | http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | unschooling, home schooling, education |
| Description: | The roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning |
| Popularity: | 5 Followers |
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Some Lessons Taught by Informal Sports, Not Taught by Formal Sports
| Imagine an old-fashioned sandlot game of baseball. A bunch of kids of various ages show up at the vacant lot. They've come on foot or by bicycle. Someone brought a bat, someone brought a ball (whic...more |
The Biological Distinction Between Play and Contest, and Their Merging in Modern Games
| Last week I began a series of posts dealing with competitive play. Now, in this second essay of the series, I want to step back and reflect on the origin of competitive play. I see it as a conjoini...more |
Pushing Competition and Damaging Health: Making Play Offensive
| If American football were a food additive or a drug, it would be banned by the FDA. Or, if financial interests prevented its banning, its package would at least carry a surgeon general's warning: F...more |
Empowering Neighborhoods and Restoring Play: A Modest Proposal
| Where have all the children gone? When I was growing up, and for some time after that, you could walk through any North American neighborhood--after school, or on weekends, or any time in the summe...more |
How Developmental Psychology’s Marriage to the School System Distorts Our Understanding of Childre
| Have you ever seen the Handbook of Child Psychology? If not, I urge you to take a look at it the next time you have the opportunity to visit a university library. Handbook is a misnomer for this wo...more |
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