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NEWS pasi sahlberg Thu 05, 2019 13:18

Let the Children Play now available worldwide

Let the Children Play was released as an English edition in North America in August 2019. Now it is available through Oxford University Press outlets in other English speaking countries around the world. It may take a moment before books are shipped to the distributors and stores. While waiting, here is a short synapsis of our book.

Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It’s the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed–skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Expert organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control agree that play and physical activity are critical foundations of childhood, academics, and future skills–yet politicians are destroying play in childhood education and replacing it with standardization, stress, and forcible physical restraint, which are damaging to learning and corrosive to society.

But this is not the case for hundreds of thousands of lucky children who are enjoying the power of play in schools in China, Texas, Oklahoma, Long Island, Scotland, and in the entire nation of Finland. In Let the Children Play we make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren.

In the course of writing this book we traveled worldwide and visited schools and playgrounds, reviewed over 700 research studies, and conducted interviews with over 50 of the world’s leading authorities on children’s health, education and play. Most intriguingly, Let the Children Play provides a glimpse into the play-based experiments ongoing now all over the world, from rural China, Singapore, and Scotland to North Texas and Oklahoma, as well as the promising results of these bold new approaches.

We hope you will find the book to be both a call for change and a guide for making that change happen in your communities.

Let the Children Play is currently being translated into Chinese, Korean, Romanian and Danish.

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