Re: [LM_NET] The April Issue of the Question Mark - Play, Experimentation & Improvisation

[R Schulte <netterscraps@GMAIL.COM>]

I did not subscribe to this, why is it being sent to the listserve?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jamieson McKenzie <fromnowon@earthlink.net
> wrote:

> The Question Mark
> Vol 6|No4|April|2010
>
> Play, Experimentation & Improvisation
> By Jamie McKenzie
> © 2009, all rights reserved
> “The play’s the thing.”
>
> Shakespeare had something different in mind when he wrote those words for
> Hamlet to speak, but for this article, the words underline the importance of
> play in the early years of a child’s life as a foundation for imaginative
> thought and production.
>
> ----- The disappearance of play -----
>
> The current drift of culture in many countries actually works to undermine
> the vitality of play, especially free play. According to a recent study,
> “Children’s Pastimes and Play in Sixteen Nations: Is Free Play Declining?”
> by Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, Heidi D’Agostino, and Raeka DeLong
> in the Winter 2009 issue of the American Journal of Play, “A decline in
> opportunities for free play and experiential learning is eroding childhood
> around the world.”
>
> "Through two years of interviewing, we hear the voices of mothers from
> around the world calling out in Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Thai, and
> other languages. . . . deeply concerned that their youngsters are somehow
> missing out on the joys of childhood and experiential learning opportunities
> of free play and natural exploration."
> Even though a number of organizations such as the American Association of
> School Librarians, ISTE (the International Society for Technology in
> Education) and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills are calling for
> schools to stress original thought and imaginative production, schools in
> the  United States and many other countries have been caught up in handling
> the demands of high-stakes testing in ways that might block such goals.
>
>
> The article is continued online at
> http://questioning.org/apr2010/play.html
>
>
> Jamie McKenzie
> Editor
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Raynette Schulte
Young Adult Librarian
Watertown Regional Library
Watertown South Dakota
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