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All work and no play-- : how educational reforms are harming our preschoolers
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All work and no play-- : how educational reforms are harming our preschoolers

Author: Sharna Olfman
Publisher: Westport, CT : Praeger, 2003.
Series: Childhood in America
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sharna Olfman
ISBN: 0275977684 9780275977689
OCLC Number: 52348907
Description: viii, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Sharna Olfman -- I: The power of play in early childhood education -- 1. The vital role of play in early childhood education / Joan Almon -- 2. The role for play in the preschool curriculum / Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, Sharon L. Plaskon, and Amanda E. Schweder -- 3. Early childhood education: lessons from Europe / Christopher Clouder -- II: Wired classrooms/wired brains -- 4. Cybertots: technology and the preschool child / Jane M. Healy -- 5. Handmade minds in the digital age / Frank R. Wilson -- III: Building blocks of intellectual development: emotion and imagination -- 6. Imagination and the growth of the human mind / Jeffrey Kane and Heather Carpenter -- 7. The vital role of emotion in education / Stuart Shanker -- IV: A mental health crisis among our children: the rise of technologies and demise of play -- 8. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children: one consequence of the rise of technologies and demise of play? / Thomas Armstrong -- 9. Play and the transformation of feeling: Niki's case / Eva-Maria Simms -- 10. Pathogenic trends in early childhood education / Sharna Olfman.
Series Title: Childhood in America
Responsibility: edited by Sharna Olfman.

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