The Play Way, an Essay in Educational Method (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry Caldwell Cook

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ISBN 10 : 1332165052 ISBN 13 : 9781332165056

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Bring learning to life with the Play Way: a practical, proven approach that treats education as active, imaginative work. This book presents a classroom method that uses play, drama, and student-led creation to teach language, history, literature, and more. It argues that children learn best by doing—acting, making, and exploring—rather than by solitary study or routine drills.

From starting with a Shakespeare play to building a learning community that mirrors a small commonwealth, the author shows how to turn classrooms into dynamic play spaces. The method centers on teacher guidance, student participation, and a balance of living experience with thoughtful study. It explains how to stage scenes, create plays, and connect dramatic activity to curriculum goals, while keeping the focus on understanding, creativity, and responsible action.

• How to introduce drama as a core learning tool, starting with accessible plays and gradually expanding scope.


• Strategies for integrating literature, history, and arts through hands-on playmaking and performance.


• Practical advice on pacing, scaffolding, and aligning activities with educational aims.


• Ways to cultivate self-government, collaboration, and critical thinking in a lively classroom culture.

Ideal for educators and students who value active learning, collaborative inquiry, and the joy of discovery through play.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Play Way, an Essay in Educational Method

This book sets forth some ideas and practical suggestions on educational method which it is hoped may prove helpful to those teachers who have not shut their minds against proposals for reform. The whole conception of the Play Way is the outcome of original thought and fancy. But if most of the practices recommended, and all the ideas upon which that practice is founded, can be traced to known influences and matched in the past history of education, then so much the better for the Play Way. For we must keep in touch with tradition, The only originality claimed is a fresh realization of the oldest truths.

Though not unmindful of the great influence which the present war must exert upon education, I have intentionally abstained from attempting to draw any conclusions from the current upheaval, partly because what is here written was conceived before the war broke out, but chiefly because it is as yet too early to speak confidently of the results for education which it will bring. Many thoughtful people claim to discern a conflict of principle in this war and they are much to be envied their belief. The issue is very complex, but it is certain at any rate that the war, with all the sacrifice it involves and all the nobility it has awakened, is being considered by those who rule our rulers as a commercial transaction on a consummate scale. It is the biggest business deal on record. All the ideal aspects of this world commotion, the liberation, the choice of rule and the renewal of spiritual activity in the life of the peoples will still remain to be undertaken by idealists and workers after the military operations have ceased.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332165052
• ISBN 13: 9781332165056
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 411
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