Serious Play in the Classroom: How Messing around Can Win You the Nobel Prize.

Wassermann, Selma

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ERIC Number: EJ443505

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Serious Play in the Classroom: How Messing around Can Win You the Nobel Prize.

Wassermann, Selma

Childhood Education, v68 n3 p133-39 Spr 1992

Play allows children to make creative discoveries. This is a result of the fact that creation comes from tinkering and the absence of fear of failure, rather than from minds trained to follow what is already known. Suggestions for building a curriculum based on serious play are offered. (LB)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Creativity, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, Improvisation, Learning Activities, Play, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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