Susan Linn

The Case For Make Believe (eBook, PDF)

Saving Play in a Commercialized World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only counterculturalit threatens corporate profits.A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial childs play isand what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapists office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a siblings death, expressing feelings they cant express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world.In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595586568
• Artikelnr.: 73556006

Autorenporträt

Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally recognized for her pioneering work using puppet therapy with children, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.