A History of Children's Play and Play Environments: Toward a Contemporary Child-Saving Movement

by Joe Frost

Book Overview

Children's play throughout history has been free, spontaneous, and intertwined with work, set in the playgrounds of the fields, streams, and barnyards. Children in cities enjoyed similar forms of play but their playgrounds were the vacant lands and parks. Today, children have become increasingly inactive, abandoning traditional outdoor play for sedentary, indoor cyber play and poor diets. The consequences of play deprivation, the elimination and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415806208
• ISBN13: 9780415806206
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"