Why People Play

by Michael J. Ellis

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0139589910
• ISBN13: 9780139589911
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Why People Play

What is play? Why do people play? Here is a stimulting approach to the multifaceted answers to these questions. The book covers play behavior in the young and shows, in particular, the crucial part this behavior plays in the early development programs for disadvantaged children. The author explores the implications of the day care centers, the trend toward open classrooms and less formalized curricula, and the vast strides made in learning-through-play research. He also focuses attention on our changing life style - away from the Puritan ethnic of living to work and toward a higher degree in the quality through working to live and points to the importance of play and leisure in the future. --- from book's back cover