Best-selling author and child development expert, David Elkind
provides parents with an understanding and appreciation of the
powerful role of play in healthy emotional and academic
development. In modern childhood free, unstructured play time is
being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive
sports and passive entertainment. While parents may worry that
their children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in
constant learning, child development expert David Elkind reassures
us that imaginative play goes far to prepare children for academic
and social success, perhaps further than the panoply of educational
products geared towards youngsters. To restore play''s good name,
best-selling author and internationally-known educator David Elkind
shows how creative, spontaneous play fosters healthy mental and
social development and sets the stage for academic learning. For
example, children learn mutual respect and cooperation through
role-playing and the negotiation of rules, which in turn prepares
them for successful classroom learning. In simply playing with
rocks, a child could discover properties of counting and shapes,
and even a toddler''s babbling is an important precursor to
language. Finally, Elkind suggests ways to restore play''s respected
place in children''s lives, at home, at school and in the larger
community.
關於作者：
David Elkind, PhD is Professor of Child Development Emeritus
at the Eliot-Pearson School of Development at Tufts University. He
is the author of a dozen books including The Hurried Child and All
Grown Up and No Place to Go. He lives outside Boston and on Cape
Cod.
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