On the issue of play, there is a very rich literature in Britain. Clem Edelman
of Reading University (that's Reading, nor reading) has a book on play
research.
Ken Goodman
Mike Cole wrote:
> While slaving over a chapter on schooling and development I got ahold of
> a recent educational psychology book. I was looking for summaries of a lot
> of issues discussed here on XMCA in two domains: reading and math. Guess
> what, there was almost NOTHING about either topic in the book! It was
> all about teaching strategies and classroom social-cognitive processes.
>
> Is that typical?
> What does it lead to? I can't even understand it for elementary school
> grades but when we get into highschool level, yee gads! Is the appropriate
> form(s) of social organization of the classroom day really independent
> of the content being taught?
>
> mike