The Self-respecting Child: Development Through Spontaneous Play (Classics in Child Development) - Softcover

Stallibrass, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020119340X ISBN 13: 9780201193404

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1989

Synopsis

This classic study of the spontaneous play of young children combines vivid and delightful observations with profoundly important insights. Alison Stallibrass, an expert on children's play and the mother of five children, makes clear the importance of uninhibited games and activities, without adult interference, in building a child's skill, judgment, and self-esteem, and shows how to make this kind of play possible in a nursery school, day-care centre, or at home.

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About the Author

Helen Alison Stallibrass (nee Scott) grew up in the country, the eldest of five children. In the years before World War II she was a student/assistant to the research staff of the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London. The influential program of this family club cum research stations was known internationally as The Peckham Experiment. Mrs. Stallibrass is at present a member of the Executive Committee of the Pioneer Health centre Ltd. which offers a consultative/advisory service and provides information about the Peckham Experiment. The address of the Pioneer Health Centre Ltd. is 7, St. Bride Street, London, EC4.For Fourteen years, Mrs. Stallibrass, the mother of five children, ran a pre-school play group in the front room and back garden of her own house. She thus became acquainted with a large number of the neighbouring children of all ages and was able to watch them growing over a long period. Her notebooks from these years helped in the writing of this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020119340X
• ISBN 13: 9780201193404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288