Play Today in the Primary School Playground
Subtitle: Life, Learning and Creativity
Contributors: Julia C. Bishop (Editor); Mavis Curtis (Editor)
Publisher: Open University Press; Open Univ Pr
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780335207169
Subjects: Children; Folklore; Primary / junior schools; Early Childhood Education; Playgrounds; Education / Teaching; Education; Elementary; Philosophy & Social Aspects; General; Preschool & Kindergarten; Games; Great Britain; History; Play; Recesses; Social aspects
First sentence: In Britain, the popular perceptions that 'children don't know how to play any more' and that 'the traditional games are disappearing' seem never to have been so widespread as in the early twenty-first century.