Word: unstructuredness
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All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. Child experts, usually a divided bunch, agree: fun is good. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Berry Brazelton, a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School who has...
I anticipated that last week's panel on feminism at Harvard would suffer from such an unstructured debate, and to a certain extent it did. After all, as the panelists kept repeating, feminism means different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion...
If you were to take a spring tour along the East Coast, stopping at many of the top colleges along the way, your weekend festivities would range from trendy bigname concerts, to unstructured parties and games, to a two-day musical extravaganza capped by a funk festival.
But what administrators and school "experts" ignore is that elementary school is a place for learning more than just academics. It's a place for growth. And that means learning how to interact with others, how to deal with unexpected problems and how to solve these problems. Free time and...
Opponents of recess also argue that alternative, more structured activities can replace recess while teaching them the same skills. Some school districts, like that in Philadelphia, have implemented "socialized recess," in which children are required to take part in monitored activities such as dance or gymnastics. In addition, more and...