Serious Play for Serious Times

A contributing factor to the loss of play in many early childhood classrooms is a sharp separation between literacy learning as serious, even urgent, academic work and play as optional, socially‐beneficial‐at‐best, fun. To recenter play in the academic curriculum, early childhood educators must not...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2023-01, Vol.76 (4), p.478-486
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