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    Let's All Play: A Group-Learning (Un)Curriculum
    Let's All Play: A Group-Learning (Un)Curriculum
    Let's All Play: A Group-Learning (Un)Curriculum
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    Let's All Play: A Group-Learning (Un)Curriculum

    By Jeff A. Johnson and Denita Dinger

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    Let children experience the learning power of play—together! Let's All Play provides all-new adventures that support children's social skill development through thoughtful group play, interaction, and conversation. These play experiences help children engage with each other and the world around them, all of which leads to rich learning. This book also encourages adults to reflect on the value of children's play through deep thinking activities.

    Let's All Play builds on the early learning principles presented in Jeff A. Johnson and Denita Dinger's first book together, Let Them Play, and the open-ended learning adventures in their second book, Let's Play.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRedleaf Press
    Release dateJan 12, 2015
    ISBN9781605543659
    Let's All Play: A Group-Learning (Un)Curriculum

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      Let's All Play - Jeff A. Johnson

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      Choice

      Overview

      It could be argued that learning to make mindful choices is one of the primary purposes of childhood. Throughout human history children have traditionally played at the work of the adults in their community—hunter, gatherer, caregiver, leader, healer—and in turn at the choice making these adults engage in. (The wind is coming from the north. I need to loop around the forest and approach the wild boar in the clearing from the south so he is less likely to smell me coming.) In addition to playing at adult choice making, children have traditionally had opportunities for more real choice making in their own lives. Throughout most of human history, adults have been too busy with things like finding food, shelter, and water and defending their families from danger to pay much attention to their children, let alone turn into helicopter parents. There was not a lot of parental hovering in the thirteenth century, and that meant kids were trusted with making real choices from a very early age.

      Over the past fifty years, opportunities to play at adult choice making and to experience real-world choice making have dwindled for children. In some cases, children are now told what to do, when to do it, and how it is to be done by well-meaning adults throughout the whole of their days. "Sally, it’s time for you to put the baby dolls away and move to the block area with Kenny. Remember, you two: no throwing blocks, and no towers taller than your waist. That’s just too

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