Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending. (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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This record of children's outdoor games played in the street, park, playground, or wasteland is drawn from the contributions of 10,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales. It reveals that the games children take pleasure in when out on their own are usually those learnt from each other - not from adults. They are games in which children may deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, play ten against one, and yet in which they consistenly observe their own sense of fair play.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0192814893
ISBN13:9780192814890
Release Date:April 1985
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:400 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"
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Actual observations of how real kids play
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book will help you regain your faith in children and respect for their games. It has been the cornerstone of my work for twenty years. It should not be out of print. Accurate, honest, direct observations of children at play, without the constraints of adult supervision, outside the boundaries of their playgrounds.
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