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A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play Paperback – 27 May 2005
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A Child's Work goes inside classrooms around the globe to explore the stunningly original language of children in their role-playing and storytelling. Drawing from their own words, Paley examines how this natural mode of learning allows children to construct meaning in their worlds, meaning that carries through into their adult lives. Proof that play is the work of children, this compelling and enchanting book will inspire and instruct teachers and parents as well as point to a fundamental misdirection in today's educational programs and strategies.
- Print length111 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publisher*University of Chicago Press
- Publication date27 May 2005
- Dimensions13.34 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-100226644898
- ISBN-13978-0226644899
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A Child's Work goes inside classrooms around the globe to explore the stunningly original language of children in their role-playing and storytelling. Drawing from their own words, Paley examines how this natural mode of learning allows children to construct meaning in their worlds, meaning that carries through into their adult lives. Proof that play is the work of children, this compelling and enchanting book will inspire and instruct teachers and parents as well as point to a fundamental misdirection in today's educational programs and strategies.
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- Publisher : *University of Chicago Press; 1st edition (27 May 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 111 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0226644898
- ISBN-13 : 978-0226644899
- Dimensions : 13.34 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 422,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1,795 in Child Psychology (Books)
- 20,832 in Schools & Teaching (Books)
- 36,237 in Parenting & Family
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Vivian Gussin Paley worked for nearly forty years as a preschool and kinder-garten teacher and is the author of thirteen books about young children, including, most recently, A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play.
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This is where creativity, flexibility starts which are the basis for more complex, rational thinking. The starting school age at 4 years old in the UK is killing fantasy. That is very worring for children emotional intelligence and well being in the long run. Allow children to be free, to imagine, to create. Do not start teaching reading and writing too early - most of Europe starts at 6 years old - and let kids learn at their own pace.
