Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Book Overview

Why is it that the best and brightest of our children are arriving at college too burned out to profit from the smorgasbord of intellectual delights that they are offered? Why is it that some preschools and kindergartens have a majority of children struggling to master cognitive tasks that are inappropriate for their age? Why is playtime often considered to be time unproductively spent?

In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199733821
• ISBN13: 9780199733828
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"