Mother Natures Pedagogy: Biological Foundations for Childrens Self-Directed Education Gray Peter
Mother Natures Pedagogy: Biological Foundations for Childrens Self-Directed Education Gray Peter Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. In this collection of…
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Mother Natures Pedagogy: Biological Foundations for Childrens Self-Directed Education Gray Peter
Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes, with research evidence, how these natural tendencies play themselves out in children who are not schooled but, instead, are allowed ample time and opportunity to exercise their natural educative drives. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well in the world were all shaped, by natural selection, to serve the function of education.
In addition, he presents evidence that children come into the world with prosocial drives-to help, share, and comfort-that grow ever stronger when adults allow them to grow. He also He explains, especially, how children learn from one another when allowed to play freely in settings where they are not segregated by age.