Thinkers from Plato to Maria Montessori have championed play as one of the most powerful ways that young children learn and ...

Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they usually ...

As pressure to raise scores on standardized tests has trickled down to the lower grades, kindergarten and even pre-kindergarten classrooms have focused more on academic skills. But debating whether a ...

Social and emotional learning is crucial to childhood development. Unfortunately, children in areas affected by conflict and disaster are more likely to miss out on critical learning opportunities.

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

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TORONTO, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Busy Bees North America (BBNA), one of the leading child care providers on the continent, announced today the successful acquisition of Learn and Play® Montessori ...

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