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Let the Children Play
- How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It's the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed - skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Expert organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control agree that play and physical activity are critical foundations of childhood, academics, and future skills - yet politicians are destroying play in childhood education and replacing it with standardization, stress, and forcible physical restraint, which are damaging to learning and corrosive to society.
But this is not the case for hundreds of thousands of lucky children who are enjoying the power of play in schools in China, Texas, Oklahoma, Long Island, Scotland, and in the entire nation of Finland. In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-2019
Interesting, a bit too American focus.
Struggled with narrator, sounded too like a computer at times (I had to check it was being read by real person). Content more focused on American school system than had expected. I think would have enjoyed book more reading it than listening to it.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-08-2022
Awful recording. 😖 😱
A great text, read by a robotic voice with no phrasing. It’s almost impossible to listen to.
very disappointing. Waste of a credit.
Why not pay for someone to read this properly?
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- Michael H
- 16-06-2020
Reccomend to all
Throughly researched, if you are a parent or a teacher this could be one of the most important books you ever read. play is vital to helping children learn creativity and interpersonal skills.
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