publications and reports

Play and Children’s Health

• Improving Children’s Health Through Play: Exploring Issues and Recommendations

Play and Risk

• Adventure, The Value of Risk in Children’s Play
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Play and Loose Parts, Playpods, and Adventure Playgrounds

• Playing It Up-With Loose Parts, Playpods, and Adventure Playgrounds
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Play in Early Childhood

• Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School
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• Crisis in the Kindergarten: Summary and Recommendations (8 pages)

• Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose

• Crisis in Early Education: A Research-Based Case for More Play and Less Pressure

Playwork

• The Playwork Primer by Penny Wilson

recess

• A Research-Based Case for Recess (2019) by Olga Jarrett

Technology and Screen Time

• Facing the Screen Dilemma - Young Children, Technology and Early Education
  - Available in Spanish
  - Available in German

• Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood

  • Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, and Introduction

  • Chapter 1: Healthy Children - Lessons from Research on Child Development

  • Chapter 2: The Hazards of Computers in Childhood

  • Chapter 3: Childhood Essentials - Fostering the Full Range of Human Capacities

  • Chapter 4: Technology Literacy - Educating Children to Create Their Own Future

  • Chapter 5: Real Costs - Computers Distract Us From Children’s Needs

  • Chapter 6: Conclusions and Recommendations

  - Available in Spanish

• Tech Tonic — Towards a New Literacy of Technology

• Video Games - A Critical Analysis by Lowell Monke