Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-reliant, and Better Students for...
- ISBN-10
- 0465025994
- ISBN-13
- 9780465025992
- Series
- Free to Learn
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Basic Books (AZ)
- Author
- Peter Gray
Description
A developmental psychologist argues that children who are freed to follow their own interests through self-directed play will become better learners and achievers than the way they learn in modern school, which he says shows them that learning is work and not fun. 15,000 first printing.
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- 2015-02-10
- 288 pages
- Paperback
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- 2005
- 212 pages
- Paperback
- Pacific Research Institute
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