Free to learn : why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life

• Main Author: Gray, Peter, 1933- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Basic Books, c2013
• Subjects: hry > psychologické aspekty; vývojová psychologie; psychologie dítěte; games > psychological aspects; developmental psychology; child psychology; monografie; monographs
• ISBN: 9780465025992
• Physical Description: xii, 274 s. ; 25 cm

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• What have we done to childhood?
• The play-filled lives of hunter-gatherer children
• Why schools are what they are : a brief history of education
• Seven sins of our system of forced education
• Lessons from sudbury valley : mother nature can prevail in modern times
• The human educative instincts
• The playful state of mind
• The role of play in social and emotional development
• Free age mixing : a key ingredient for children's capacity for self-education
• Trustful parenting in our modern world
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index