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The Power of Play - Book Review
Title: The Power of Play
Author: David Elkind, PhD
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Non-Fiction
Book Number/Goal: 45/50 in 2009
Review: The basis of the book is that children, especially young children, need the opportunity to learn through play. He emphasizes the necessity of bringing work, play, and love in to all things and the importance of family involement.
The book briefly touches on various formal education menthods including Montessori, Waldorf, and "traditional" schooling (rote learning and memorizations).
I would recommend this book anyone who is interested in education/child development, and to any parent who wants more than a "parenting" handbook. The book is well written, while many of the ideas are not innovative or radical, it does provide a bit of food for thought as well as comfortable reassurances about things you may already be doing.
Author: David Elkind, PhD
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Non-Fiction
Book Number/Goal: 45/50 in 2009
Review: The basis of the book is that children, especially young children, need the opportunity to learn through play. He emphasizes the necessity of bringing work, play, and love in to all things and the importance of family involement.
The book briefly touches on various formal education menthods including Montessori, Waldorf, and "traditional" schooling (rote learning and memorizations).
I would recommend this book anyone who is interested in education/child development, and to any parent who wants more than a "parenting" handbook. The book is well written, while many of the ideas are not innovative or radical, it does provide a bit of food for thought as well as comfortable reassurances about things you may already be doing.